By Fabio Valentini in archive —

This week in Fedora (2017w37)

Multiple bugfix updates were published this week, including new versions of wingpanel, the Pantheon LightDM greeter, and the elementary CMake modules. Additionally, some golang packages were updated.

fedora updates

I've submitted the following packages to the fedora repositories:

  • wingpanel-2.0.4-1: minor upstream update, including support for the new mutter in GNOME 3.24 (changes)
  • wingpanel-indicator-network-2.1.0-1: minor upstream update (changes)
  • pantheon-greeter-3.2.0-1: minor upstream update, including a downstream patch to support GNOME 3.24 (changes)
  • golang-github-templexxx-xor-0.1.1-1: initial package (new dependency of golang-github-xtaci-kcp-go-3.19-2)
  • golang-github-xtaci-kcp-go-3.19-2: minor upstream update (changes)
  • syncthing-0.14.37-1: minor upstream update (changes)
  • switchboard-plug-networking-0.1.1-1: minor upstream update (changes)
  • cmake-elementary-0.1.0-1.20170727.gitf8d0d30: update to latest upstream snapshot (changes)

COPR updates

elementary-nightly changes

Alongside their respective version bumps, these packages were switched to using git for snapshots instead of bzr this week:

  • wingpanel-indicator-network (bumped to 2.1.0)
  • pantheon-greeter (bumped to 3.2.0)
  • switchboard-plug-networking (bumped to 0.1.1)
  • switchboard-plug-applications (bumped to 0.1.2)
  • switchboard-plug-keyboard (bumped to 0.3.2)
  • switchboard-plug-mouse-touchpad (bumped to 0.1.2)
  • switchboard-plug-parental-controls (bumped to 0.1.3)
  • switchboard-plug-sharing (bumped to 0.1.1)
  • plank (bumped to 0.11.4)
  • cmake-elementary (bumped to 0.1.0)

I've also removed two obsolete / abandoned packages from the repository:

  • eidete
  • pantheon-notes

Additionally, I've created a new mock-elementary-nightly package that contains mock configuration files for locally building against the packages in the decathorpe/elementary-nightly COPR repository. It's available from the repository itself.

syncthing changes

The EPEL7 package of syncthing was also updated to version 0.14.37 in the decathorpe/syncthing repository.

Comment on the state of elementary / Pantheon snapshot builds

Most of the packages in the decathorpe/elementary-nightly repository are now built from git snapshots, as all packages that have had a version bump since the sources were moved to GitHub were adapted to use git instead of bzr.

However, this means that packages that haven't had a stable release in some time are still built from bzr snapshots. Those include:

  • cerbere (last released on 2016-08-10)
  • contractor (last released on 2016-08-11)
  • maya-calendar (now called calendar upstream, last released on 2016-09-06)
  • pantheon-files (now called files upstream, last released on 2017-06-03)
  • scratch-text-editor (now called code upstream, last released on 2017-02-20)
  • snap-photobooth (now called camera upstream, last released on 2016-09-18)
  • switchboard-plug-bluetooth (last released on 2017-02-20)
  • switchboard-plug-security-privacy (last released 2017-05-22)