Re: GNOME 3.23.3 released

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 03:34:40PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 21:08 +0100, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> >  - gspell (1.2.1 => 1.3.1) (*)
> > (*) No summarized news available
> >
> > There is a bug in the code that extracts the news, because I've
> > updated
> > the NEWS file as always:
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gspell/commit/?h=1.3.1
> >
> > So, there is basic support of spell-checking for GtkEntry. Something
> > that was missing from GNOME during the whole lifetime of GTK+ 3 :-)
>
> Yeah, the script isn't smart enough to handle branchings so it misses
> news updates quite often. In this case 1.2.1 was the last release, and
> the script didn't find 1.2.1 in your NEWS file because that release was
> made on a sidebranch, so it gave up. No doubt this could be improved,
> but in the meantime if you want to be sure your NEWS will show up you
> have to copy the NEWS entries from the sidebranch to master as a
> workaround. Arguably that results in more-readable NEWS anyway, but
> it's harder for maintainers and I don't bother to do so personally.

OK, thanks for the explanation.

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Sébastien