[Mageia-dev] E17 packaging

Wed Oct 26 18:21:37 CEST 2011

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Florian Hubold wrote:
+> Am 26.10.2011 06:59, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+> >Le samedi 22 octobre 2011 à 08:41 +0100, Philippe Reynes a écrit :
+> >>Hi,
+> >>
+> >>
+> >>I've tried to use E17, but it's an old version. I've asked e17 team,
+> >>and they answered me that E17 is "rolling release". So no
+> >>stable release (or vert vert few).
+> >>
+> >>
+> >>I propose to package svn version, so we could be up-to-date.
+> >>If a problem occurs, we could report it to upstream.
+> >>
+> >>
+> >>
+> >>What do you think about doing it on all E17 package ?
+> >How will it go for stable support ?
+> >
+> >IE, once mageia 2 is out ?
+> >
+> We have better chances for bugfixes, don't think the snapshots which
+> we used till now ( nearly one year old and also only based on
+> the development release) will get some love anymore.
+> 
+> For security issues, there were none that i'm aware of except for imlib2.
+
+There is at least one that I found and reported 2 times ( albeit not using the
+public bugtracker ) that didn't get corrected, just look
+at http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/browser/trunk/elementary/src/lib/elm_map.c
+
+( a little help : the issue is in the first 25 lines )
+
+> But if you argument this way, we should stay with the packages we have
+> until E17 is fully stable and release, but i don't see how this would be better.
+
+We cannot at the same time say 
+"we offer quality package and take care of fixing them" and at the same time, 
+just say that we won't. 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+