[Spice-devel] Regarding next Spice drivers release

[Victor Toso]

Hi again,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 08:33:35AM +0200, Victor Toso wrote:
> 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

There is a build for Fedora rawhide that you might be able to use
but I haven't tested.

    https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1138474

> > 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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