[RELEASE] 4.2.0 mostly frozen
Jasper Huijsmans
jasper at xfce.org
Thu Jan 6 07:35:04 CET 2005
Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Rob Lahaye wrote:
>
>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Rob Lahaye wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just checked the xfce_4_2 branch and committed some last
>>>>> time fixes.
>>>>
>>>> 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").
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 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 :(.
>>
>>
> the xfce_4_2 branch isn't for reporting problems. that's what the betas
> and RCs were for.
>
But, tags should be synced properly nonetheless ;-) We'll have to ask
Auke when he returns from holiday.
Jasper
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