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[opensuse-gnome] What are your least favorite bugs?
by Federico Mena Quintero 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

Dear lovers of reduced entomology, There has been a bunch of discussion about the bug status of GNOME in openSUSE. Some people say it is buggier than the cockroach nest which I found two days ago in my cupboard. It's not that bad, but close. Anyway --- we want to build a list of the bugs which annoy the most people, so that we can fix those first. Rodrigo Moya and myself have been talking of how to do this. There are several ways to do this: - By counting the "votes" in Bugzilla. If you look very closely in bug pages (or use the high technology available in Edit/Find), you'll see a "Vote for this bug" field. This hasn't been used very much in bugs for openSUSE 10.3, while there is some interesting info in 10.2 (e.g. the most-voted bug of all in 10.2 is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=222490 - Nautilus uses 100% CPU; we have a patch, which I'll take care of putting into a package for 10.2 soon). - By looking at the bugs with the highest number of duplicates. No idea about this yet. - By looking at bugs with the largest CC list. I don't know if people really take the trouble of looking for bugs before (re)filing them, so this may not give out meaningful info. - Bug severities / priorities, of course. [An interesting bit of literature is http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000014.html for those interested.] So, here is a CALL FOR HELP * Please vote for bugs in Bugzilla. Vote for bugs that happen to *you*, not for bugs which you don't get but which you think may be important. * Please make sure that you are in the CC list for relevant bugs which have already been filed (or just file the bug again; the elves will take care of marking it as a duplicate). Rodrigo and myself will probably publish a list of "hot bugs" soon. Thanks! Federico -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Plan for Integration of GNOME 2.20 Packages into Factory Next Week
by Gary Ekker 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

Hello all, This is the plan for integration of the GNOME 2.20 release into factory/10.3. As you know, the GNOME-2.20 release date is Wednesday, September 19. These updates will clearly not make RC1 but they will make it in for RC2 and/or the final build of 10.3. The upstream GNOME tarballs, however, are due on Monday, September 17. Which means the GNOME packaging team at Novell will be starting to submit the updates to factory next Monday, and will declare it finished on Wednesday. Keep in mind that GNOME-2.20 has been in hard code freeze since September 10 with only a few code changes approved by the release team since then. These updates will largely be no-ops (just a version bump) and translation or doc updates. This is the plan: We have the package list here: http://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=pXWjzV1g7sCqH0NY9PgddOg&hl=en_GB It is a public doc, editable by the SUSE team. sbrabec will start early in Prague, followed by mw, mauropm and myself in the US. We will update spreadsheet to indicate that a package is being worked on, and then mark it as updated once submitted to our internal build system. We may even solicit some help from other well known packaging superstars such as jpr, coolo, etc. We will be taking the tarballs from upstream as they are submitted by the maintainers to the FTP tree; grabbing them from here, as that's where they show up the quickest: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/ Internal administrivia: When you build packages place them in $HOME/Export/yyyy/mmdd/arch so others building packages can pull them into the $BUILD_ROOT with --prefer-rpms We're all looking forward to a great 10.3! Cheers. -los paqueteros (mw,mauropm, gekker) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] "GNOME" Tag in Build Service
by JP Rosevear 14 Sep '07

14 Sep '07

It would be great if some could tag any gnome related packages in the build service with the 'gnome' tag so they can be found more easily via the tag cloud (for instance G:S, G:U and G:C have none or almost no packages tagged, although the repo itself is). -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] One Click In GNOME
by JP Rosevear 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Thanks to some work by Martin Vidner, 1-click install works nicely in GNOME/Firefox now as of 10.3 beta 3. Go to: http://software.opensuse.org/search and give it a try. Looked pretty good to me (other than the 1000 yast progress dialogs). -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr(a)novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Date representation with respect to the polish locale
by Chenthill 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi, The date representation for polish locale in 10.3 seems to cause some issues. The dates are represented in the form of roman letters such as the following in 10.3, Pn, 10 IX 2007, 17:09:05 IST where as the date representation for the same locale with 10.2 is, pon wrz 10 17:20:23 IST 2007 Evolution uses strptime to parse the date strings using locale's date format. The corresponding bug assiociated with this is https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=302371 . Any clues on how to fix this ? Does this require a fix in glibc ? thanks in advance, Chenthill. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Weird GNOME-related RPM problems
by Michel Salim 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

I've noticed these related problems on-and-off involving GNOME packages on openSUSE 10.2: - on a stock install, gnome-games when queried would list, among others /var/games/glines.{Large,Medium,Small}.scores -- but the RPM actually installs /var/games/glines.scores - attempts to upgrade to GNOME:STABLE always results in a broken install, one of the telltale sign being the inability to load icons - after downgrading back to openSUSE-10.2+updates+GNOME:Community, to my surprise the icon loading problem still occurs. I tried running 'glines' from the terminal, and get this: (glines:17512): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders': No such file or directory Weird, I thought. Perhaps it's the same RPM bug that used to affect Fedora, where some files are clobbered on RPM upgrades? To be safe, I removed gtk2 (with --no-deps), and then reinstalled it. Twice. Using smart and, for safety measures, using rpm manually. Like gnome-games, here is the result: michel@hitchens:~> rpm -ql gtk2 | grep gdk-pixbuf /etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders /opt/gnome/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders michel@hitchens:~> ls /etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/*.loaders ls: cannot access /etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/*.loaders: No such file or directory michel@hitchens:~> rpm -q gtk2 gtk2-2.10.6-24.2 Any thought? Will probably file this to Bugzilla, but I need to know what to file this against. GNOME in general? The build service? RPM? Thanks, -- Michel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] mainline mozilla-nss-tools package
by jacob berkman 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Hello, a couple of the smartcard packages use a system-wide nss database for their smart card configurations (pam_pkcs, krb5's pkinit plugin). currently, no package sets these up on the system for the user, and probably the right package for this is mozilla-nss. unfortunately the tools to do this would be in the mozilla-nss-tools package. would it be a problem to merge these into the main mozilla-nss package, and ad a postinst to create the nssdb? thanks, -- jacob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] GNOME:STABLE/GNOME:Community
by James Ogley 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Just wondered how stable (for want of a better word) GNOME:STABLE is? Had been wondering whether it might be an idea to change the target for GNOME:Community for products < openSUSE_Factory to be GNOME:STABLE/<product> if G:S is stable enough? -- James Ogley james(a)usr-local-bin.org http://usr-local-bin.org GNOME for openSUSE: http://software.opensuse.org/download/GNOME:/ Help end poverty: http://oxfam.org.uk/in -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] F-Spot 0.4.0 backport to openSUSE 10.2
by Ivan N. Zlatev 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

I have backported Factory of 0.4.0 to 10.2 with the cost of dropping making of documentation and %if -ing a lot of stuff. Also I have set a dependancy on hicolor-theme 0.10 due to the missing icons otherwise. You can find both in my Home Project - http://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=f-spot&project=home%3Ai-nZ. Are you okay if I update f-spot in GNOME:Community, which is a quite old version (0.2.2) ? Regards. -- Ivan N. Zlatev Web: http://www.i-nZ.net "It's all some kind of whacked out conspiracy." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-gnome] Re: [opensuse-factory] About dropped packages -- xmms
by Stanislav Brabec 06 Sep '07

06 Sep '07

Robert Kaiser wrote: > I think it would be good if xmms would be available from build service > at least until GTK1 really gets killed. What about creating GNOME:GNOME1. I can move there related gtk1, libgnome1 packages from GNOME:STABLE and GNOME:UNSTABLE and add xmms. If anybody will want more there, it will be up to anybody to add more GNOME1 packages. -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbrabec(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help(a)opensuse.org

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