[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#647749: Bug#647749: Interim fix proposed in the upstream bug report

Yves-Alexis Perez corsac at debian.org
Wed Nov 9 16:49:43 UTC 2011


On mer., 2011-11-09 at 13:02 -0300, Marcelo Fiscella wrote:
> In the upstream report it was suggested that the license key from ctw (an  
> open source weather client currently unmaintained) could be used instead  
> of the current one as an interim fix (see  
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8105#c9).
> 
> Since I'm not a DD, I don't know how many person-hours it would take to  
> apply this trivial patch and upload an updated package to the repository.  
> Therefore I can't tell whether the effort would be worth it or not.
> 
> However, if this workaround could prevent having another broken or missing  
> piece in Xfce, then maybe it's worth it, even if it's just a temporary fix  
> and not a solution to the underlying issue. 

Yeah, it's just band-aid, but considering there's not much other
solutions and that the license key owner gave his ack, I guess that's
the best solution for now.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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