Re: [Fink-devel] Heads-up: gnome and kde3 going to stable thisweekend

[D. M. <dm...@ne...>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:41:20 -0400, Alexander Hansen  wrote:
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  > On 10/14/10 10:15 AM, Daniel Macks wrote:
  > > What's the perfect answer to the weather turning cool in the 
Northern-hemisphere autumn? Why, setting "stable-only" users' CPUs on 
fire with a massive set of package updates!
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  > > In unstable, KDE3 has a newer teeny-version and GNOME a new 
"upstream stable" release version, and both suites (and their 
lower-level dependency libs) have accumulated lots of upgrades and 
build-fixes and other tweaks too. It's all been in unstable for months, 
and will be synced to stable this weekend unless someone whines loudly 
ASAP. I'll try to keep it all sane during the process, but there may be 
some transient problems--missing deps or build problems as I fight with 
CVS commits and given how many fixes are for problems caused by other 
fixes elsewhere in the tree, getting sanity among the various 
platforms, etc. 
  > >
  > > Please help me by reporting last-minute bugs and committing 
last-minute fixes in the next day or two. Then please do not commit 
anything while I do the migration (hard-freeze, I will post again when 
I am actually about to start). And then hold off on reporting anything 
busted until after I'm done. 
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  > > dan
  > >
  > >  --
  > > Daniel Macks
  > >  dm...@ne...
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  > Are we going to unleash .la-cleaning on stable as well by updating dpkg?
 
Yes. That's an intrinsic part of the new gnome, and the fixes for it
  are part of the other build-fixes for KDE (as well as version-up). 
 
dan
 

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