RFC: Upgrade Banshee to 1.8.0 in F13

[Christian Krause]

Hi,

On 10/11/2010 07:37 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:20:54 -0400
> Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel at natemccallum.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to propose that we upgrade banshee (and
>> banshee-community-extensions) to 1.8.0 in F13.  I estimate that this
>> will close about half our open bugs.  Doing this will require the
>> following package upgrades in F13:
>>
>> * clutter-sharp - Upgrade (I'm pretty sure Banshee is the only user)
>> * gio-sharp - New
>> * gudev-sharp - New
>> * gkeyfile-sharp - New
>> * gtk-sharp-beans - New
>> * libgpod - Upgrade (0.7.93 > 0.7.95; bugfix release)
>>
>> The only thing complicated here is the buildroot override requirement
>> and making sure that we ship the new banshee-community-extensions in
>> the same update as the new banshee.
>>
>> Currently, I do not think it is feasible to backport this to F12, so
>> F13 would be the latest version.
>>
>> Thoughts? Comments?
> 
> Well, lets see: 
> 
> F13 currently has version 1.6.1 in it. Looks like they follow an 'odd
> is unstable/devel, even is release/stable' method. So, all the 1.7.x
> releases were development ones. 

Yes, that's correct.

> I see a lot of bugs fixed, but also a bunch of new features: 
> http://banshee.fm/download/archives/1.8.0/
> 
> I see 9 open fedora bugs. 
> 
> Has the UI changed since 1.6.1? I would suspect so. 

Not very much, only very slightly.

> Would the libgpod update require rebuilding or changing anything else?
> How many other packages depend on that?

No, the SONAME and so the API of libgpod hasn't changed.

> So, this seems to me to be something that would need more rationale/a
> stable updates exception. 

I agree that there may be subtle changes (GUI, behavior, new bugs, ...).
However, as one of the maintainers of the banshee package in Fedora I
would certainly like to update to 1.8.0 as well.

I suggest the following:

- importing the new pre-requisites into F13 is uncritical even right now

- confirm with libgpod maintainers whether an update to 0.95 is
acceptable, if yes, it can be done in the meantime as well

- give banshee some time in F14 and get some feedback from users first
(probably even wait until F14 is out - otherwise too less people will
use it regularly)

- try to fix any regressions (e.g. it looks like that for me at least
the iPod (non-touch) support is broken)

- if there is no critical feedback or the issues could be solved: do the
update in F13


Best regards,
Christian