Re: Uploading GNOME 2.24 to sid
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:05:35PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
> > Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 15:00 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit :
> >> > * Broken graphical installer, until someone updates our GTK+
> >> > DirectFB patches
> >> <...>
> >> > Is all of that OK with the release team?
> >>
> >> - From d-i POV this is a serious issue since we will not allowed to test
> >> the graphical installer. I'd much prefer to hold it until the DirectFB
> >> patches are ready.
> >
> > And who will provide these patches? No one has been working on GTK+
> > DirectFB for a long time.
>
> [ I've added debian-boot ml to CC ]
>
> I understand that you wish to update GNOME, specially GTK, in unstable
> but I think this can't make installer broken as a conseguence.
>
> Your comment fears me even more since it does look that we can end up
> without directfb support for long time... I think you agree with me that
> Graphical Installer can't be droped from Debian without a lot of people
> being unhappy and tagging it as a really serious regression for user POV
> so having it in mind I believe we need to find an alternative for it.
>
> Who was last people that worked at those patches? Could them help us on
> that?
There are some patches that haven't yet been applied upstream that might
help. See for example http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554407;
IIRC GdkWindowImpl is the main change that the directfb backend hasn't
followed.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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