xcb-util 0.3.4 breaks awesome

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 18:39 -0400, Josh Rickmar wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2009, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> 
> > * Josh Rickmar (joshua_rickmar at eumx.net) wrote:
> >
> > That's quite complicated problem actually - xcb-util update has
> > broken awesome; we could update awesome to 3.3-rc1, but it requires
> > startup-notification 0.10 (which likely requires new xcb-util as
> > well).
> >
> > Thus we'll likely have to wait for s-n 0.10 and consider awesome
> > broken for now. Meanwhile, awesome users are recommended to not
> > upgrade from/downgrade to xcb-util 0.3.3.
> >
> > This is really our fault as there should've been more testing and
> > coordination with this update.
> >
> >
> 
> OK.  I've known about this break for quite some time now as there have
> been many Linux users who had this same problem.  In case of something
> like this in the future, should I send a message to the maintainer
> telling him/her about the potential break?

Sending a HEADS UP message to the maintainer if you are aware of an
issue would be a good courtesy and hopefully minimize any breakage.  A
short delay for a maintainer to address the issue is reasonable, but
that is a slippery slope.  I say give a reasonable amount of time for
the breakage to be addressed (where the definition of reasonable is open
to interpretation).  If it isn't addressed, please move forward and
commit.

robert.

> Also, to anyone who hasn't updated their xcb-util port yet, here's what
> I did to prevent tools like portmaster from installing the newer
> version:
> 
> # touch /var/db/pkg/xcb-util-0.3.3/+IGNOREME
> 
> Now in portmaster, I get the following message when using -a to update
> all my ports:
> 
> ===>>> Launching child to update xcb-util-0.3.3 to xcb-util-0.3.4
> 
> ===>>> xcb-util-0.3.3 has an +IGNOREME file
> 
> ===>>> Update anyway? [n]

-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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