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[Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>]

> We have a few branches that should be merged into test, but they need
> testing. Right now they are stagnating. I will be setting up some VMs on
> my box to do tests, but welcome others to also test upgrading *from
> test* to these branches and workout/file any bugs found.
> 
> The branches I am interested in and will be testing in-order:
>       devel-libpng (should be quickest of the tests)
>       devel-xorg-modular (X.org 1.10)
>       devel-gcc (GCC 4.5, may just skip for below)
>       devel-merged-gcc (GCC 4.6 w/merged)
> 
> Branches others may be interested in:
>       devel-gnome-3-0-0
>       devel-firefox4
> 
> Some branches we should probably delete:
>       devel-bash-4
>       devel-gcc-parallel
>       devel-gnome
>       devel-gnome-2.30
>       devel-gnome-2.32
>       devel-kde43
>       devel-kde44
>       devel-xorg-modular-7-3
> 
> -sandalle
> 


devel-libpng contains libpng 1.4.5 (I was updated it on 2010-12-10).
Last 1.4 branch has already version 1.4.7.
There is alredy 1.5 branch and the last stable libpng is 1.5.2.

I wrote to the sm-discuss list [1], none conclusion, nobody is
interesting. :-(


devel-xorg-modular (X.org 1.10) is OK. I updated X.Org to 7.6 before
Xmas and sent email to sm-discuss [2] mentioned problem with
libpthread-stubs. Nobody is interesting, nobody merged (yea, some
individual spells were merged). :-(


devel-gcc is a evidence that if we want to stop updating spells it is
sufficient to create new branch. Last version update of gcc in test
grimoire was on 2010-04-01 into version 4.4.3. ;-( Nobody is really
interesting. :-(


devel-gnome-3-0-0, I had created it. I updated all gnome spells. Nobody
is interesting, nobody touched this branch. Instead there are fixes of
deprecated gnome spells in test grimoire and neverending discussion if
we will support gnome2. Gnome2 is dead! Gnome3 is working for me. We can
merge it, of course we will have to also fix several conflicts.


devel-firefox4, instead of merging it we provide old firefox version
with security bugs in test. I updated firefox and xulrunner to 4.0.1 and
2.0.1 in devel-firefox4, how many tested? :-(


Also we have devel-udev branch. I have updated udev to version 168 with
changes in init.d. How many tested? The problem is with /run directory.
Should it be part of smgl-fhs spell or should be created by udev spell?
Some developers strictly disaprove that /run was on their boxes. We need
conclusion.


I am really upset with last Source Mage development. How many active
developers do we have? How it is possible that core developers use half
of year old sorcery? Core developers don't update their boxes. Instead
of using upstream they trying to fix deprecated spell versions. Last
months I really think about new Source Mage fork. :-(


[1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2011-February/020414.html

[2] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-discuss/2010-December/020364.html


-- 
Ladislav Hagara