Oh come on, there's no hive mind conspiracy against you here, you know
that. It's individual developers answering questions that are asked of
them and giving you their own judgement. If you'd have asked me before
starting this work then I would have given the same answer ("do it only
if the other changes make it worthwhile [and maybe consider cherry-
picking those first if possible]").The concern is this - Big revert patch - Can never drop it as long as we don't move to PCRE 2 - Gets harder to maintain over time - No clear path to moving to PCRE 2 - Given that, does having the new releases bring features and/or fixes that mean we should take on these difficulties or is this just taking on an unknown amount of work indefinitely just to have a larger number in the version string? That is a *question*, not an accusation. Or are you saying that I shouldn't be allowing these considerations to weigh into Feature Freeze requests, since the net change of *this* upload will be small? Maybe that's fair and if that's the case then it means I'm answering as a fellow desktop team member, not as someone in the release team. In that case, your two ways to get this upload (three if you count 'ignore me and upload anyway' as one) are - Provide an explanation that this upload is worth the above future difficulties - Show that the net change is small and convince another member of the release team to +1 this request -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1666264 Title: FFe: Update gnome-terminal to 3.24 and vte to 0.48 Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: gnome-terminal and vte are still at their 3.20 (and 0.44) versions because they now hard-depend on pcre2, but the pcre2 MIR (LP: #1636666) has stalled because there is already one version of pcre in main and it would be a major task to convert all of main to use pcre2. So I reverted 3 commits for gnome-terminal and 5 for vte to make that MIR less urgent. I am concerned about the long-term maintainability of this approach - the vte patch is over 1600 lines. gnome-terminal 3.22 and vte 0.46 have been tested in the GNOME3 Staging PPA for yakkety and zesty for months. I am not aware of any issues from that. This is slightly different since I haven't tested those versions without pcre2 until this weekend. The development cycle for gnome-terminal and vte has been fairly quiet so I believe it's safe to go ahead and update gnome-terminal to 3.23.90 and vte to 0.47.90. https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/log https://git.gnome.org/browse/vte/log The packages are currently available for testing at https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+packages?field.series_filter=zesty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1666264/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
