mate-dialogs obsolete in F22

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowi at redhat.com
Thu Jun 18 02:38:06 UTC 2015


On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 11:18 +0200, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> I just upgraded to F22 and noticed, that mate-dialogs was uninstalled
> and cannot be reinstalled due to mate-desktop having an Obsoletes entry
> for it. The corresponding changelog entry is quite short:
> 
> What was the reason for this? matedialog works quite well on F22 (
> installed the rpm with --nodeps) and I could not find a replacement for
> this tool, so I'm left a little puzzled...

Upstream deprecated it in 1.10 in favour of GNOME's zenity:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/commit/22cec78be5c7a3887e695e9a787fc462102e0509
https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/commit/3d5bef24bdb30514e1758850693964cf0199653d

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Yaakov Selkowitz
Associate Software Engineer, ARM
Red Hat, Inc.




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