[sword-devel] Xiphos crashes

[Karl Kleinpaste]

On 06/11/2014 09:59 AM, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> That is not The Fedora Way™ … I have been always proud, that in 
> Fedora it is useless to have PPAs, because we have one shared 
> PPA on which everybody can work — the Fedora itself.
> Couldn’t we just make single-spec package (with some %ifs if 
> necessary) building on supported Fedoras (F19, F20, Rawhide, at 
> the moment) and the last EPEL (for a moment, I would support 
> EPEL-6 as well, but after half-a-year or so I would stick with 
> just EPEL-7)?
> Would anybody mind if I just build the latest sword and xiphos 
> for these repos?
As Greg and I have chatted in IRC, the perspective he's offered is that
building for older releases is for bug and security vulnerabilities.  I
disagree with this, but if that's Policy, I don't have a lot of say. 
Obviously there are bug fixes in each release, and I would think that
justifies building for all currently-supported releases.  That's why I
built Sword and Xiphos packages last evening for F19, which I've now
been told work fine on F20, too.

I of course won't mind if current versions get built for the official repos.
> So, should I close it as CANTFIX (or WONTFIX)? 
I would say "already fixed, by abandoning an old toolkit" but you can
pick whatever notation is appropriate.
> So needinfo asking what’s the relevance of KDE? Does the GUI 
> uses something weird like “Gnome theme making Gnome apps looking 
> like KDE ones” (what’s its name)? It used to lead to many 
> crashes, but I don’t know if such animal still exists in 
> KDE4/Gnome3 world.
I'm unaware of any such animal at all.  From my perspective, any
interaction with KDE is simply wrong.  So yes, need to understand how
libproxy comes into the picture in the first place, and why it wants to
interact with KDE.  Xiphos has no proxy support at all -- why is
anything down there asking for /either/ libproxy /or /KDE?
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