[Bug 999111] Re: SRU: update to onboard 0.97.1 bugfix release (debian source supplied)

marmuta 999111 at bugs.launchpad.net
Thu Jun 14 22:20:44 UTC 2012


Sorry about the size of the diff, this is my fault. I just kept going on
and on, merging all of trunks bug fixes upstream without much regard to
the SRU process. Some of those changes, like fixes for the glitchy
opacity transitions touched a lot of code, but generally simplified
things and are supposed to be more robust as a result. Similarly, last
minute changes of Precise allowed us to rip out clunky workarounds,
namely detecting iconifying by libwnck instead of formerly broken GTK3.

I understand your frustration, perhaps 0.97.1 really isn't SRU material.
It was well intentioned from our side, though. Regression testing for
all releases is (still) done manually by checklist in four desktop
environments: unity, unity-2d, gnome-shell and gnome classic (with and
without compositing). If it helps in any way I'd send you the list.

Going through all the bugs again and creating test cases would take a
lot of time. Most bugs and their fixes are only briefly documented in
bazaar. If the SRU depends on a complete set of test cases we'd probably
have to forgo it. Onboard 0.97.0 has been rather resilient anyway and
people can get the update from our PPA(s) if needed.

I think at least one good reason for a SRU may be the ongoing troubles
with translations crashing Onboard (for various reasons). See fresh bug
#1013279 for example, but there have been plenty of others. The proposed
update is much more robust in that regard and simply falls back to
English for unexpected translations. There are usually workarounds
available for the current version too, though.

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