Initial thoughts on Severn

[Mike Martin]

I have the following observations on severn

1. Gnumeric/abiword

why is the gnumeric version 1.0.x rather than 1.1.9. The 1.0 series
is not really being developed anymore

Why cant you select abiword for install either during install or via
the add/remove programs (it rocks hard)

2. Add/remove programs - only programs that appear in the package
list during install appear (se above) and nothing happens when you
press preferences. 

A question - would it not be better for all packages that belong in
the group to appear when you click details/install and not just a
subset.

3. Another vote for gnome 2.3 - it certainly appears to be more
stable than previous releases in this point in the cycle.

4. Can we have Bitstream installed as default

5. A long runing issue has been bzip2-devel not being installed when
you select development in the installer. I am not sure if this is a
ftp install issue, but I did not see an option to select all packages
during install.

6. redhat-config-httpd

This fails with a failure of xslt. python module - where is this?
Also rpm -q --requires redhat-config-packages shows apacheconf as a
requirement, but this is not in the package listing.

(this may affect other server config scripts - have not had chance to
check)

7. Should not the release notes be amended to give updated packages
as in previous releases (as shown by the confusion over gcc32)

I hope this is seen as constructive - its meant to be.

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[Jonathan Blandford]

Mike Martin <redtuxxx(a)yahoo.co.uk&gt; writes:

>  why is the gnumeric version 1.0.x rather than 1.1.9. The 1.0 series
>  is not really being developed anymore 
Gnumeric was at 1.0.x for a long time at the request of the author.  the
1.1.x series did not get full feature parity back to the old series
until recently, and the author didn't want regressions in support.  That
being said, he has recently made noises about shipping a version from
1.1.x so we'll probably update soon.

-Jonathan

[Phillip Compton]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 05:09, Mike Martin wrote:

>  
>  6. redhat-config-httpd
>  
>  This fails with a failure of xslt. python module - where is this?
>  Also rpm -q --requires redhat-config-packages shows apacheconf as a
>  requirement, but this is not in the package listing.
>  
>  (this may affect other server config scripts - have not had chance to
>  check) 
The problem is due to the new 4Suite. If you install the version from
Shrike, it will work fine.


Phil

[Havoc Pennington]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 09:36:57AM -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
>  Mike Martin <redtuxxx(a)yahoo.co.uk&gt; writes:
>  
>  > why is the gnumeric version 1.0.x rather than 1.1.9. The 1.0 series
>  > is not really being developed anymore
>  
>  Gnumeric was at 1.0.x for a long time at the request of the author.  the
>  1.1.x series did not get full feature parity back to the old series
>  until recently, and the author didn't want regressions in support.  That
>  being said, he has recently made noises about shipping a version from
>  1.1.x so we'll probably update soon.
>   
Though if Jody really thinks 1.1.x is shippable, I have no idea why he
leaves it with a beta version number. RELEASE THE SOFTWARE. ;-)

Havoc

[Chris Chabot]

>  > Also rpm -q --requires redhat-config-packages shows apacheconf
> as a
>  > requirement, but this is not in the package listing. 
Whooa horsie, if you do a rpm -q --whatprovides, you'll notice that
redhat-config-httpd provides 'apacheconf'. This trick is often used in rpm's
to obsolete, replace & provide old packages (to keep old dependencies sane).

No need to bugzilla for that

[Alan Cox]

>  1. Gnumeric/abiword
>  why is the gnumeric version 1.0.x rather than 1.1.9. The 1.0 series
>  is not really being developed anymore 
Please Bugzilla as an RFE

>  5. A long runing issue has been bzip2-devel not being installed when
>  you select development in the installer. I am not sure if this is a
>  ftp install issue, but I did not see an option to select all packages
>  during install. 
Again bugzilla this - that sounds like an error

>  6. redhat-config-httpd
>  
>  This fails with a failure of xslt. python module - where is this?
>  Also rpm -q --requires redhat-config-packages shows apacheconf as a
>  requirement, but this is not in the package listing.
>  
>  (this may affect other server config scripts - have not had chance to
>  check) 
Please Bugzilla - include the traces from the failure.

Alan