Re: Hard freeze exception for gnome-chess

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
> On 03/22/2014 03:24 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > gnome-chess 3.11.92 does not build on *BSD. [1] The fix involves moving
> > one conditionally-compiled function call from Vala into C. I think this
> > is pretty safe, but since it adds three new files (a .c, a .h, and
> > a .vapi), I do not consider it trivial.
> >
> > Would be nice to have this fixed in 3.12. I'm also fine with fixing this
> > in 3.12.1 instead: it would just be a courtesy to our BSD friends to do
> > so now. I've tested on Linux to make sure the Linux-specific
> > functionality has not regressed. The build has been tested on FreeBSD.
> >
> > Obviously documentation/localization is not affected.
> >
> > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726614
>
> As you mention, the  main doubt is about non-trivial nature of the
> patch. I'm more biased to have this for 3.12.1, but I would not object
> too much if any other from the release team votes for 3.12.0

I agree; lets defer this to 3.12.1; there's an easy workaround after
all. I may mention it as a known issue in the release announcement