[RELEASE] 4.2.0 announcements and preliminary tarballs

[Benedikt Meurer]

David Fraser wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> First: The complete freeze has been delayed until 2005/01/10 12:00h 
>> (CET) for two reasons: a) some translations aren't perfect yet and b) 
>> probably new default wallpaper. Release Tag will be moved on 
>> 2005/01/09 after all translations and the wallpaper has been 
>> committed. Besides that, xfce_4_2 is frozen now and in good shape.
>>
>> I created source tarballs and Fedora RPMs today, without any problems, 
>> and so I don't expect other packagers to have problems, but please 
>> check them before 4.2.0 final tarballs are created. (the tarballs are 
>> only meant for packagers and porters, _NOT_ for general use!)
>>
>> I've put up a site dedicated to Release Engineering for 4.2.0 with the 
>> links for the preliminary tarballs and announcement texts here:
>>
>>  http://www.xfce.org/~benny/releng.html 
> 
> Just a note that the Fedora RPMs don't include dbh as normal. I presume 
> this is unintentional

As said those RPMs aren't official ones, I just build them to ensure 
that all .spec files are ok.

> David

Benedikt