xfce 4.4.2 test packages ready

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat Nov 24 18:49:56 CET 2007


Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On sam, 2007-11-24 at 11:39 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On ven, 2007-11-23 at 01:09 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>> The test packages are there mainly to iron out *packaging* issues.
>>> Any
>>> bugs in the software that haven't been fixed won't be fixed until
>> the
>>> next release.  We're not going to fix every single bug with every
>>> release; we just don't have the resources, and there's no such thing
>>> as
>>> bug-free software (unless you write sw for the space shuttle, and
>> even
>>> then...).
>> Yes but bugfixes releases shouldn't introduce new bugs, that was my
>> point (especially bugs not really understood)
> 
> For what it worths, the offending commit is
> http://svn.xfce.org/index.cgi/xfce4/revision?rev=26265
> 
> It seems to be a good idea to remove calls to deprecated functions, but
> shouldn't they be replaced by non-deprecated ones?

Huh, I coulda sworn that function actually didn't do anything anymore. 
Well, I'll roll a new package if I have time, since it's a simple fix; 
but no promises.

	-brian



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