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Date:	Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:02:28 +0100
From:	Juergen Harms <Juergen DOT Harms AT unige DOT ch>
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Subject:	[geda-user] New geda release on Mageia 2
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Short update:
The development version of Mageia 2 ("Cauldron") now contains 
geda-1.7.2. That will than go to the final release (planned for may).

We had decided to use 1.7.2 rather than the stable 1.6.2, since Mageia 
"policy" does not allow to introduce new packages between Mageia 
releases - which means that whatever goes to the new Mageia release now 
will be cast in stone for 9 months (but applying patches and bugfixes 
evidently is OK)

Some patches were necessary to make 1.7.2 build on Mageia ( which uses 
glib 2.0) - that might be of interest for other distros. The patches can 
be found in the source rpms at the Mageia repositories - or, to avoid 
downloading the entire srpm, at the Mageia svn: http://svnweb.mageia.org/.

One slightly anecdotic but annoying issue: all new packages brought to 
the repositories need to pass formal checks by the rpmlint utility. 
Rpmlint goes frenetic over the street address of FSF (Free Software 
Foundation), and SFS happens to have moved recently. This address 
figures in the copyright statements in practically all source packages. 
rpmlint issues an error message for each of them. Can this be changed at 
geda? (I dont care whether rpmlint is happy or not, but this "fog" of 
complaints about SFS risks to hide small and possibly important error 
messages). Thanks!

Juergen

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