Re: D-Bus going modular
Hi Sjoerd,
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:50:30PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> In the last releases dbus has been split up in seperate packages, one for the
> core libraries and the daemon and the various bindings in their own packages.
> Which is ofcourse good news.
> Apart from that the core library had a soname bump, a deprecated function has
> been removed. Unfortunately the function (dbus_connection_disconnect) is
> still used by various applications, so these need a little patching
> (s/dbus_connection_disconnect/dbus_connection_close/)..
> Recently all the needed pieces of have been uploaded to experimental and some
> testing has been done with running the new dbus with the old core bindings
> and rebuilding gnome packages against the new versions. Apart from the
> patching mentioned above, no problems were encountered.
> If there are no concerns from the release team, i would like to start
> uploading the new dbus packages to unstable at the end of the coming weekend.
> In the mean-time we'll be filing bugs with patches for the packages that
> still use dbus_connection_disconnect.
Please wait for the python 2.4 transition to clear into testing. This won't
be ready by this weekend, though I would optimistically project it might be
done by the end of next week.
Thanks,
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