[RELEASE] 4.2.0 mostly frozen

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Rob Lahaye wrote:

>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>Rob Lahaye wrote:
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>>>Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello everybody,
>>>>
>>>>I just checked the xfce_4_2 branch and committed some last
>>>>time fixes.   
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>>>>
>>>Is this branch available for developpers only? On purpose?
>>>
>>>I've tried to get it, but was unable to 'cvs update' to it.
>>>See my earlier message:
>>>http://lunar-linux.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2005-January/014246.html
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Rob.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>it appears that xfce/CVSROOT/val-tags isn't getting synced between
>>the 
>>dev CVS and the anon CVS.  not sure if it needs to be, but i guess 
>>that's what's causing the problem.  at any rate, it downloads fine
>>for 
>>me using anoncvs, despite the warning (note that it doesn't say
>>"error",  just "warning").
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>Yes, I know and I was not complaining I couldn't download anything.
>I actually can. However, with this Warning, also the tag is ignored
>and instead of downloading xfce_4_2 branch, it downloads HEAD.
>That's the problem.
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>
how could you tell?  last time i checked, HEAD and xfce_4_2 were 
identical, aside from some xffm stuff.  at any rate, all the CVS/Entries 
files show the correct tag.

>As a result, non-developpers cannot access xfce_4_2 branch.
>If that's on purpose, then that's fine with me; but then I report
>problems AFTER the release :(.
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>
the xfce_4_2 branch isn't for reporting problems.  that's what the betas 
and RCs were for.

    -brian