[indiana-discuss] What version of (insert non-GNOME package here) is planned for 2009.04?

[Calum Benson]

On 21 Jan 2009, at 07:49, Chris Ridd wrote:

>
> On 19 Jan 2009, at 00:41, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
>>
>> Joanmarie:
>>
>> Oops, sorry, my last email was too quick.
>>
>> I notice that our spec-files SVN head has 2.5.3, but the 2.24 stable
>> branch still is building with 2.5.1.  Since the next OpenSolaris
>> release will be based on the 2.24 stable branch, this means the next
>> release of OpenSolaris will contain version 2.5.1.  Unless, of  
>> course,
>> we update this spec file before then.
>>
>> Rick Ju is the owner of our pidgin spec-file, so I am cc:ing him so
>> we can consider updating to the newer version in our stable branch
>> before the 09.04 release.
>>
>> If the a11y bug you mentioned is a serious bug fix, then it might be
>> good to file a high priority bug about this in defect.opensolaris.org
>> to help ensure this issue gets attention.
>
> Out of curiosity, why is updating pidgin tied to updating the
> underlying GNOME? Pidgin is not part of GNOME AFAIK.
>
> Or am I misinterpreting something?

The latter :)  Brian was just pointing out that the 2.24 branch of  
spec-files (which includes most of our desktop apps, not just the  
GNOME ones) forms the basis of what's currently due to ship in  
2009.04, and right now that only includes Pidgin 2.5.1.  We could,  
indeed, bump the version of Pidgin on that branch prior to 2009.04 if  
we had a compelling reason to do so.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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