Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 17:32:06 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org>, Josh Rickmar <joshua_rickmar@eumx.net> Subject: Re: xcb-util 0.3.4 breaks awesome Message-ID: <1241735526.1788.12.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <20090507220706.GF3811@hades.panopticon> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905062112380.17395@FGD135.localdomain> <20090507220706.GF3811@hades.panopticon>
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--=-a+4X2YH2toaQ1Uhn4L4S Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 02:07 +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > * Josh Rickmar (joshua_rickmar@eumx.net) wrote: >=20 > That's quite complicated problem actually - xcb-util update has > broken awesome; we could update awesome to 3.3-rc1, but it requires > startup-notification 0.10 (which likely requires new xcb-util as > well). >=20 > Thus we'll likely have to wait for s-n 0.10 and consider awesome > broken for now. Meanwhile, awesome users are recommended to not > upgrade from/downgrade to xcb-util 0.3.3. >=20 > This is really our fault as there should've been more testing and > coordination with this update. Holding back X or it's sub-components is really not an option. The applications have to keep up. xcb-util doesn't fall under my umbrella, exactly, but I do update it in Xorg sweeps on occasion. Unless the damage is widespread progress must continue. Awesome needs to be patched, updated or marked BROKEN temporarily. robert. --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-a+4X2YH2toaQ1Uhn4L4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkoDYWYACgkQM4TrQ4qfROPGKgCfZCZ6mHDd5feJI6JFhEZIDt5/ J0wAn2TbcrMk0xMvrD/ZMKZcOXvCf0Hd =uXin -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-a+4X2YH2toaQ1Uhn4L4S--
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