Re: ORBit2-2.14.4-1
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:49:44PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> > Loic Minier (CC'ed) contacted me, because he wants to see ORBit 2.14.4
> > in etch. He says that he has problems with 2.14.3-0.1 (the current
> > version) that 2.14.4 fix. I've now prepared ORBit2 2.14.4-1 [1] and am
> > currently testing it, but I don't expect major problems, since ORBit is
> > fairly stable and GNOME has a sane release policy. Is there any chance
> > to get this version into etch, if it proves to be stable? The main
> > change between 2.14.3 and 2.14.4 is the addition of timeout code, which
> > avoids possible hands. Apart from the there's mainly code cleanups and
> > warning fixes.
> Just for the record: the problem I'm currently experiencing and which
> might or might not be fixed with the current version is quite certainly
> a timeout issue: after periods of high load (such as when building a
> large package, e.g. gtk), some apps have IPC problems. For example,
> when I try opening Galeon windows, it complains it has crashed (which
> isn't true), when trying to open GNOME configuration applets, they
> complain that gnome-settings-daemon can't be reached, and I have
> trouble login out. I've had this problem since months if not years.
> The new upstream release changes many blocking calls to add timeouts
> where possible, and this might help with my problem, but perhaps not.
Is it possible to get confirmation of whether this version fixes the problem
before trying to review this package for inclusion in etch?
Uploading to unstable is fine as long as there are no interface changes or
obvious RC bugs here.
Thanks,
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