From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 20:05:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BAE106564A for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:05:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao102.cox.net (eastrmmtao102.cox.net [68.230.240.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0BD8FC12 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:05:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao102.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090110200536.NDJL8735.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:05:36 -0500 Received: from localhost ([68.103.37.153]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id 1w5b1b0053JFCbG02w5bAQ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:05:35 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=fH7Ix8WoIMsA:10 a=6aydYE_NAAAA:8 a=aiIX5UjjAAAA:8 a=20KFwNOVAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=x1sVFSYU7kmjHtki__YA:9 a=wu3qbzq7w7XUohOemfAA:7 a=1Qs09rkis7VFA5eyrEYklYrkzzoA:4 a=S6SSTFWO9yUA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:05:31 -0600 To: "Michal Varga" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3f1fd1ea0901101039j69b09b18s44650cbe3bbca45b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3f1fd1ea0901101039j69b09b18s44650cbe3bbca45b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.63 (Linux) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome-session 2.24 (upstream) mess X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:05:37 -0000 On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:39:50 -0600, Michal Varga wrote: > Hello guys, > I noticed that Gnome 2.24 was commited today along with gnome-session > 2.24, so I need to ask - how did FreeBSD Gnome team decide to deal > with the recent session management fuckup? I mean this: Because we don't know about this bug. Nobody has report about this bug when 2.24 was available in MarcusCom CVS for very long time. I guess, we will have to add in our known issue for now until we figure what to do with it. Cheers, Mezz > http://np237.livejournal.com/22014.html > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552387 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471980 > > ...etc, basically any OS/distribution that adopted 2.24 has been > heavilly bitten by this major regression (try google a few discussions > just for the lulz factor, though seriously, the whole situation is not > that much humorous) and so far I heard that only Gentoo ships > (probably somewhat modified/patched, though I'm not a Linux user and > would need to check their repos first) gnome-session 2.22 to address > it. > > Anyway, my question is (while i'm still syncing the ports) - was the > issue addressed on FreeBSD's side, if not, are there any plans to > address it "really soon", and if not (god save us), can someone please > at least put a neon blinking warning in UPDATING? I've seen a few > Linux early adopters of Gnome 2.24 on a verge of suicide then they > learned that session management (as we know it) has been shot in the > head, without any replacement in sight.. > > m. -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org