[Spice-devel] Regarding next Spice drivers release

[Victor Toso]

Hi Carlos,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 09:57:55AM -0500, Carlos González wrote:
> Thanks very much mr Toso, yet again.
> 
> ... maybe I still need to learn how to read stuff at gitlab?
> The 0.14.1 tag https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/tags/v0.14.1 says
> "no release notes" nor has any downloads, and the "main" commitment
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/commit/eaa07ef15cfc3bf57a69da2576af66f028787774
> doesn't mention the "avoid invalid flag" commit.

We might have missed it. There was about 300 commits in this
release!

> Again, I apologize if I'm sounding hasty; the point is, I've been a bit
> anxious to test the fix and report back here. But in order to do so one
> needs for distributions to update the respective spice-server packages (in
> my case I use openSUSE and Proxmox). Even so, as far as I just learned, I
> think main distros usually don't backport *all* of released patches and bug
> fixes, only priority ones. And only from "releases", not "pre-releases". In
> a more special case, if one wants a specific fix to be backported, one
> needs to file a bug report at the corresponding bugzilla, but they request
> absolute proof of the bug existence and fix in order to be taken in account.
> 
> Now, if it turns that 0.14.1 is still a "pre-release", there's still way to
> the release point, and I'm being hasty, sorry again.

It is a stable release. I'll upload the tarball to the gitlab's
tag shortly but the official download path that is target to
distro's should be

    https://spice-space.org/download/releases/spice-server/

Spice 0.14.1 and its signature:

    https://spice-space.org/download/releases/spice-server/spice-0.14.1.tar.bz2

    https://spice-space.org/download/releases/spice-server/spice-0.14.1.tar.bz2.sign

And release notes you have linked above.

> Also, no one has been able to confirm mr Yuri's inquiry yet 3
> posts back...

    https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2018-September/045575.html

I take that you are the best person to provide feedback if 0.14.1
helps or not.

> Thanks again.

Cheers,
Victor

> 
> El mar., 18 sept. 2018 a las 0:55, Victor Toso (<victortoso at redhat.com>)
> escribió:
> 
> > Hi Carlos,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 07:45:43PM -0500, Carlos González wrote:
> > > With all due apologies beforehand, but after re-reading this thread
> > >
> > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2018-August/045216.html
> > > and checking the Spice Space downloads site, I'm not sure how to
> > understand
> > > it, whether spice-server 0.14.1 has already been released, and if it has,
> > > whether change
> > >
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/commit/ca4984570f425e87e92abe5f62f9687bb55c1e14
> > > was really included in it...
> > >
> > > Could someone clarify if it's not bothersome?
> >
> > It was released, you can see the 0.14.1 tag at
> >
> >     https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/tags
> >
> > Also,
> >
> >     $ git tag --contains ca4984570f425e87e92abe5f62f9687bb55c1e14
> >     v0.14.1
> >
> > So, the 0.14.1 release does contain that commit :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
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