Re: Swfdec: required external packages

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno mar, 29/01/2008 alle 20.32 +0100, Benjamin Otte ha scritto:
> On Jan 29, 2008 6:16 PM, Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it> wrote:
> >
> > Il giorno mar, 29/01/2008 alle 01.10 +0100, Benjamin Otte ha scritto:
> >
> > > Additionally, we want to track Swfdec git master from swfdec-gnome
> > > until 0.6 is released. Is that ok - in particular with the jhbuild
> > > people?
> >
> > ???
> >
> I looked into jhbuild and external deps are always tarballs. So I was
> wondering if there was a policy against depending on development
> versions for external deps. It's a bit more work for jhbuilders after
> all.

Oh, we have a similar issue with gtk-vnc/vinagre. There are some
features in gtk-vnc that aren't in a released package.

Ideally external deps should be grabbed from packages, not from version
control systems. Ask to release team...