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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 07:25:55PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> sadly enough, I didn't have the time to deal with that stuff as fast as
> I expected, so here's a call for comments.
> GNOME 2.12 has been working fine in devel for quite some time now, but
> it's held back from test integration because of the (api-incompatible)
> upgrades of dbus, hal and cairo it requires.
> Here's the list again, all of those are optional_depends or
> functionality enabled by CONFIGURE options:
> cairo breaks: possibly mozillas cairo svg renderer, no one has tested
>               that yet
> dbus  breaks: gnugadu2, bluez-utils, rhythmbox
> hal   breaks: k3b, kdebase
> 
> I don't think any of the functionality enabled by those options is
> important enough to hold back the GNOME and gtk 2.8 integration into
> test any longer. If no one objects those optional_depends will be
> disabled shortly until upstream makes their code work with the new hal,
> dbus and cairo.
 
Ok, I didn't have time to do this before leaving anymore, so everyone
who wants to help is free to fix/remove these optional_depends. Robin,
could you please watch this and integrate the gnome 2 upgrade once all
of the above is done?

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