xkeyboard-config 1.1: (nearly) failed release
September 27, 2007 3:12 pm xkeyboard-configThe release of xkeyboard-config a couple of days ago would be the smooth one, if only…
Unfortunately, by mistake, the tarbals included broken sl.po, which caused troubles in building base.xml (and subsequent problems in GNOME). I uploaded fixed tarbals several hours later – but apparently some people already downloaded original broken stuff.
I deeply apologize to everyone for inconvenience and potential troubles.
Technical detail: the .po files used by intltools cannot contain <> characters. That breaks resulting XML badly.
September 27th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I appreciate that you’re telling people about this so we have a chance to re-create our packages, but another time could you please do like all the well-behaving projects and do a microversion release, i.e. 1.1.1?
September 27th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Mark yes you’re right. I thought about microrelease actually myselft…
September 27th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
I *think* this might have caused my Xorg to blow up 🙂
I could login, but there was some strange behaviour and then Gnome always promptly crashed.
Removing the keyboard section from my xorg.conf worked, and so did removing xorg.conf altogether, but what a mess it was (and is!).
September 27th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Never ever replace tarballs. This is so stupid just because release managers have some weird objections about incrementing version number. This really doesn’t hurt 🙂
September 28th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
I concur. Please never ever recreate tarballs that have been already released to public. It causes major headaches to distributions. For example we get a checksum of the tarball and include it in our Manifest files – if you reupload these checksums will be wrong and the package will NOT work. Furthermore, if the mirroring system has already pulled the first tarball, there will be no manifest breakages for most people as they are getting the tarball from the mirror and we will never know there is a fixed version of the same versioned tarball out there. Not to mention that even if we do find out about it, it’s a major headache to get fixed, because of all the original (broken) tarballs floating around on the mirrors. Brown paper bag releases are good for your soul, and especially ours 🙂
September 29th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Thank you for providing the updated mac french layout 😀
Cheers !
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:16 am
Lads, hopefully I learned the lesson:)
2Etienne: you are welcome:)