Re: GNOME 2.91.90 build issues (tracker, network-manager-applet, libpeas)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le vendredi 25 février 2011, à 18:08 -0600, Dan Williams a écrit :
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 21:32 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> > > This looks like you're using a tarball for the build instead of upstream
> > > jhbuild's module that pulls from git master?  I can't seem to find
> > 
> > This is because we release GNOME versions as a set of tarballs; and we
> > produce individual modulesets targetting those, see this one for an
> > example:
> >   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.91.90/gnome-suites-core-2.91.90.modules
> > 
> > This is also why the release team publishes a schedule, sends
> > "tarballs due" emails, nag people for tarballs, etc.  And that's why
> > if you want to be be a core GNOME module, you should follow the
> > schedule, publish tarballs in due time, etc.
> 
> Well, it's not really a core gnome module and will eventually be
> supplanted by the shell's built-in indicator applet.  Yes, we do need a
> tarball release off git master.  But clearly including code from
> branches that are not meant to be used with latest GNOME isn't going to
> work...

Which is why tarballs from the right branch are useful :-)

Vincent

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