gnome-session 2.24 (upstream) mess

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:39:50 -0600, Michal Varga <varga.michal at gmail.com>  
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.


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