[SM-Discuss] stable-rc 0.27 is now cut and ready

Arwed von Merkatz v.merkatz at gmx.net
Thu Nov 13 14:20:34 EST 2008


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:47:19PM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:10:54AM -0600, George Sherwood wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:41:34 +0100
> > Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara at unob.cz> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > I would recommend reverting gmime back to 2.2.22.  I don't think any
> > > > programs have been updated to use version 2.4.0 and we have a few
> > > > broken spells from this.
> > > 
> > > Imho, gmime 2.4.0 is a part of GNOME 2.24. I was not able to find out 
> > > some official list of GNOME 2.24 packages.
> > > We have GNOME 2.24 in stable-rc.
> > > 
> > > # gaze versions libgnome
> > > Grimoire    Section      Spell     Grimoire Version  Installed Version
> > > --------    -------      -----     ----------------  -----------------
> > > test        gnome2-libs  libgnome  2.24.1            2.24.1
> > > stable      gnome2-libs  libgnome  2.22.0            -
> > > stable-rc   gnome2-libs  libgnome  2.24.1            -
> > > 
> > > 
> > > BTW, according to http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/footware.shtml we have 
> > > only GNOME 2.10. ;-(
> > > 
> > 
> > It seems that balsa, tracker, tomboy and mail-notification depend on
> > gmime in gnome. I know that tracker, beagle, and pan are all broke
> > with the gmime 2.4.x series. They work with 2.2 as far as I know.
> > Guess it depends if we want to have it to have it or want to have
> > something that works. Tomboy is also broke for me, but I am unsure if
> > due to gmime.
> 
> I'm downgrading stable-rc gmime to 2.2.22 for now.
> The two versions can actually be installed almost in parallel. Only the
> two binaries uudecode and uuencode conflict, but we could just remove
> those from the gmime-2.2 spell install. Too late for stable-rc, but I
> think that's the best solution for test grimoire.

Seems like it's not as simple as just downgrading it, the gmime-sharp
bindings break with our current mono version. tracker and pan could be
made to work with disabling the C# bindings in gmime 2.2, but tombay and
beagle would stay broken.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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