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[bug#34378] update GNOME Planner to current
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#34378] update GNOME Planner to current |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:45:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Andrew,
Sorry for the loooong delay!
Andrew Miloradovsky <address@hidden> skribis:
> On 2/12/19 9:58 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Andrew Miloradovsky <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> The release is fairly old and contains prebuilt scripts.
>> What do you mean by “prebuilt scripts”?
>
> By pre-built scripts I mean things like `configure`, generated by
> auto-tools and gnome-common.
Oh I see. We currently accept scripts generated by the Autotools (it’s
pretty much an exception in our policy; perhaps that’ll change in the
future.)
>>> + ;;; Warning:
>>> + ;;; The documentation generation mechanism is long broken. No Yelp yet.
>>> + ;;; So the output doesn't contain any docs, unlike the ancient release.
>>> + ;;; OTOH, that's probably not a huge concern, given the circumstances.
>>> + (let ((commit "fa7cbe309d5a705502ca46f808bcf78840804dbe")
>>> + (revision "2019-02-08"))
>> How did you pick this particular commit? In general we only package
>> releases, unless there’s a compelling reason to build straight from the
>> VCS. Do you think that’s the case here?
>
> I picked that commit just because it was the most recent: the release is
> expected to be very difficult to make, a lot of things need to be
> fixed/modernized first, and there are not many people to review the
> patches (one to be exact, AFAICT).
>
> I'm not sure there are really compelling reasons: most/all of the
> changes made since the release are either about translations
> (documentation generation is broken anyways), or fixes of deprecation
> warnings (which otherwise would prevent it from building in Nixpkgs with
> the default -Werror).
OK. I think it’s a case where we’d wait for upstream to push a new
release, rather than guess which commit is appropriate to distribute.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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