Bug#599532: Freeze exception request for conky 1.8.1

[Cesare Tirabassi <cesare.tirabassi@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:47:58 +0100
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov  2, 2010 at 15:33:57 +0100, Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 00:21:49 +0100
> > Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Oct  8, 2010 at 16:43:07 +0200, Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Can you please consider granting an exception and eventually
> > > > unblock conky-1.8.1?
> > > > This is primarily a maintenance release which underwent quite a
> > > > lengthy feature freeze, with a few important bug fixes.
> > > 
> > > Could we get just the few important bug fixes, and not the other
> > > changes and features?
> > 
> > What changes and features? AFAIK the only one change which is not
> > a bug fix is this:
> > 
> > http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=commitdiff;h=9e3156a4a6502d82c527d13474cca33c4441c2b9
> 
> I didn't get through the full diff, but I don't think most of it is
> fixing release critical (or even important) issues.
> 
> > Note also that I plan to add these two bug fixes from the 1.8.2.
> > branch:
> > 
> > http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c555deb64c75b2a6f04dc9c6b52756897567483
> 
> That looks fine.
> 
> > http://git.omp.am/?p=conky.git;a=commitdiff;h=f055cfefad989d6c8136bde4aee7e6e577403ef5
> > 
> That sounds like a new feature.

Nope, its a nasty little bugger:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105262
 
C.