Re: 2.32 tarball releases and unstable API/module usage

[Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 00:02 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
> Recently quite some 2.32-ish tarballs have been released. Some examples:
> - Gvfs 1.6.5
> - GConf 2.32.1
> - gnome-disk-utility 2.32.1
> 
> These releases are all broken for people using a stable GNOME 2.32
> desktop:
> - Gvfs doesn't work correctly without a module added in glib 2.27 [1]
> - GConf doesn't compile without glib 2.27.1 [2]
> - gnome-disk-utility depending on an unreleased libnotify (0.6.1)
> - libnotify 0.6 needs gtk3, I don't see a 0.6 branch in git, so I don't
> expect 0.6.1 will make much sense either
> 
> All of these modules either don't have a gnome-2-32 branch, or don't
> release stable versions from that branch. Gvfs doesn't have a 2.32
> branch, but incompatible releases are released with a stable version
> number from master. Gconf has a 2.32 branch, but the 2.32.1 release was
> done from master. Gnome-disk-utility has no 2.32 branch, everything is
> done on master.
> 
> Either these things get released as 2.33 tarballs to make clear that
> they're not regular 2.32 updates, or they get fixed to compile AND WORK
> on a stable 2.32 desktop. 
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631398
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634512

I'm going to branch gvfs and sort things out (#631398), expect correct
1.6.6 release soon.
-- 
Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek redhat com>