On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:52:36PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken, Andy, Ragnar, Armin, Fernando, > > Could you please let me know what you are planning to work on for the next > few > weeks. I've been working tickets and we are now down to 30! > Last time I looked at the tickets, there wasn't anything I felt able to do. Now that gnome-3.2 is out of the way, I can take another look.
For packages, only perhaps xorriso (I've got a slightly newer version, and have now used it) and freetype - gentoo claim that 2.4.9 fixes a load of CVE vulnerabilities, but when I looked last night the first number was invalid. I've not seen that before, usually they stay as 'reserved' until the disclosure process is complete. I had hoped to get back to simplifying the gnome-3.2 dependencies by working out which are implicit in other deps, but too much of gnome has moved to 3.4, my analysis from 3.2 will not necessarily be valid. The packages I mainly use that are in the book (in no particular order - urxvt, firefox, cups-ghostscript-gutenprint, the gimp, Imagemagick, ffmpeg, xine, vlc, audacious, gutenprint, abiword, epiphany) seem to be up to date. The other important packages for me are smartmontools, icewm (1.3), Image::ExifTool (just a regular perl module, handy for adding descriptions and CC license data to my photos), ufraw. I could be tempted to add these if there is interest. Apart from that, I'll be back to building LFS-svn and generally updating my desktop toolkit versions (I'm still on glib-2.30) to match what is in the book. I also need to find some time to catch up with the xorg lists. So, I'm hoping to get back to the other things I've put to one side, in particular processing my train photos and movie clips from last August. > I'm sure there are packages that are not quite up to date and not in the > ticket > system, but overall progress is excellent and we are as up to date as I've > seen > in probably 5 or more years. > The book is much more alive than I can remember. > Perhaps we should discuss an overall plan. Do we want to make any major > changes > or settle back to a maintenance mode for a while? Should we tackle a LiveCD > again? > I still like the idea of releasing versions targetted at specific versions of the LFS book, but they are out of date as soon as released. My only concern with the current book is that nobody is building it all, so we might have incompatibilities between some of the packages. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
