Is this something we should proactively push out to social media?

On 08/10/2017 10:06 AM, Alex Valavanis wrote:

Hi All,

Ubuntu Trusty builds are now fixed in the trunk PPA.  I hope this will also have fixed Debian 8 builds... please let me know if not.

We can now pay attention to the PPA build logs so we avoid build failures on older systems :)

AV

On 24 July 2017 at 22:38, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 03:02:11PM +0100, Alex Valavanis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've brought the trunk PPA back online... it's currently failing on the
> "make test" step:
>
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/330394206/buildlog_ubuntu-xenial-amd64.inkscape-trunk_1%3A0.92.0+devel+15937+86~ubuntu16.04.1_BUILDING.txt.gz
>
> As an interim measure, I've disabled the test rule in the PPA builder until
> someone figures out how to fix it!

Thanks for converting the PPAs, Alex!

Bryce

> AV
>
> On 24 July 2017 at 12:05, Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...972.....> wrote:
>
> > Just another +1 for handling this all through CI.  It will place an
> > impossible burden on developers if we need to manually rebuild everything
> > on a list of "supported" build systems before committing to trunk.
> >
> > The PPA builds are currently out of date because we don't yet have an
> > "official" mirror of the git repo on Launchpad.  It's not too tricky to set
> > up though, and we can switch to using git-builder when it's available.
> >
> >
> > AV
> >
> > On 24 July 2017 at 11:59, Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...1857...00...> wrote:
> >
> >> I've re-added the listing for Debian oldstable to our "Tracking
> >> Dependencies" page... http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/
> >> index.php/Tracking_Dependencies#Distros
> >>
> >> On 24 July 2017 at 10:01, Tobias Ellinghaus <houz@...173...> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Am Sonntag, 23. Juli 2017, 23:22:46 CEST schrieb Michael Soegtrop via
> >>> Inkscape-devel:
> >>> > Dear Eduard, dear Inkscape Team
> >>> >
> >>> > > If this version matches the actual requirement unexpected build
> >>> failures
> >>> > > like Michael was experiencing should be impossible as cmake would
> >>> > > already warn at the configure stage.
> >>> >
> >>> > I would think that CMake allows newer versions than the specified one,
> >>> > unless explicitly told otherwise. The issue here is that some GTK 3.16
> >>> > are actually used although only GTK 3.8 features should be used (as far
> >>> > as I understood).
> >>>
> >>> While I tend to believe that users of ages old stale^Wstable
> >>> distributions
> >>> shouldn't expect bleeding edge development versions of programs to work
> >>> on
> >>> their systems I'd still like to help with at least the glib/gtk part:
> >>>
> >>> Read [0] and [1], then add the defines to CMakeLists.txt to have them
> >>> set for
> >>> all files. Also make sure that the compiler warns about deprecated
> >>> functions.
> >>> That will bring you half way there. Once the code base compiles without
> >>> compiler warnings you can enable -Werror for development builds (i.e.,
> >>> when
> >>> there is a .git folder) and you will be sure to stay compatible with
> >>> those
> >>> libraries.
> >>>
> >>> The rest can be done with CI, or just crowd source it and wait for people
> >>> complaining when builds fail. :-)
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>> > Best regards,
> >>> >
> >>> > Michael
> >>>
> >>> Tobias
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> [0] https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Version-Informa
> >>> tion.html#GLIB-VERSION-MAX-ALLOWED:CAPS
> >>> [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-General.html#GD
> >>> K-VERSION-MAX-ALLOWED:CAPS
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