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[George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com>]

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 17:55 +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 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?
> 


I have removed optional depends for dbus and hal on these spells.  No
additional testing was done with cairo and mozilla.

George Sherwood

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