Bug 289867 – [tracker] Xfce 4.7/4.8 status

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-10-20 14:12:13 UTC]

This is a development release leading up to exo 0.6.0. The new API
additions are not yet finalized, so there may be incompatibilities
between this release and the final 0.6.0 release.

The API version of exo has been changed from 0.3 to 1, to make it easier
to bump minor and major version numbers in future releases. To compile
against this version of exo, you have to change exo-0.3 to exo-1 in your
configure file. This backwards-incompatible change has also been used to
remove deprecated APIs or APIs that are now provided by Gtk 2.14 or Glib
2.18.

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-10-24 12:37:12 UTC]

0.5.1 in portage (p.masked for testing)

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-10-24 12:43:27 UTC]

Reopening, we can reuse this bug to test all:

http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/xfce-base/exo

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-10-24 18:41:58 UTC]

Broken:

xfce-extra/xfce4-volstatus-icon-0.1.0-r1 (Pretty dead...)
media-video/xfmedia-0.9.2-r2 (This one has been replaced by media-video/parole)
xfce-base/thunar-1.0.1

Untested because thunar is broken:

xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.6.1:thunar
xfce-base/xfdesktop-4.6.1-r1:thunar
xfce-extra/thunar-media-tags-plugin-0.1.2
xfce-extra/thunar-volman-0.3.80
xfce-extra/xfce4-places-plugin-1.2.0

So we need to fix Thunar, it's not just the configure.ac that needs fixing,
it needs code changes. And after that, check the rest.

Everything else now works, I've patched them.

[Comment 4 Robert Bridge 2009-10-30 12:16:18 UTC]

Is media-video/parole a suitable replacement for media-video/xfmedia yet as parole is currently marked as ~ where xfmedia is stable?

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-10-30 12:47:08 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Is media-video/parole a suitable replacement for media-video/xfmedia yet as
> parole is currently marked as ~ where xfmedia is stable?
> 

It's upstream decision, not ours. Programs with stalled development are moved into upstream's git archive tree:

http://git.xfce.org/archive/
http://git.xfce.org/archive/xfmedia/

Patches are still accepted, if you decide to give it a whirl. I bet I can even get it applied in git.

[Comment 6 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-12-06 13:51:31 UTC]

xfmedia Treecleaned

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-03-01 12:56:07 UTC]

Reverse deps of thunar need to be reviewed as well... There's no more thunar-vfs library

[Comment 8 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-03-02 16:39:37 UTC]

FYI, xfce4-panel-4.7.0 requires exo-0.5.1. It is a rather major bump. :) (not yet it tree)

[Comment 9 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-09-29 02:46:58 UTC]

3 issues blocking us from unmasking:

- only in upstream git in separate branch, xfce-extra/thunar-shares-plugin 
- only in upstream git in separate branch, xfce-extra/thunar-vcs-plugin
- new (unreleased) garcon-0.1.2 will be needed for xfdesktop-4.7.0 for menu files

[Comment 10 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-12-05 19:25:47 UTC]

closing.   4.8.0_pre2 is in ~arch and just about everything works now (some plugins are broken, but they have their own bugs)