Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 24 hour review for >= dev-libs/glib-2.28 stable news item
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:12:23
Message-Id: BANLkTimTLJmr=YC7=34AeSAKx3UaCB02Tg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 24 hour review for >= dev-libs/glib-2.28 stable news item by Alex Alexander
1 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Alex Alexander <wired@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:56:06PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
3 >> You have 24 hours to comment on this news item.  Sorry to put it so
4 >> bluntly but this is required for major security bug (#364973).
5 >>
6 >> See attachment.
7 >
8 > Should be wrapped at 72 chars, but looks good otherwise, thanks :)
9 >
10 >
11 >> Title: Upgrade to GLIB 2.28
12 >> Author: GNOME Team <gnome@g.o>
13 >> Content-Type: text/plain
14 >> Posted: 2011-04-26
15 >> Revision: 1
16 >> News-Item-Format: 1.0
17 >> Display-If-Installed: <dev-libs/glib-2.28
18 >>
19 >> The way of setting default URI handlers has changed since dev-libs/glib-2.28
20 >> and above. If you used the GConf registry to set them before, they will now
21 >> be ignored.
22 >>
23 >> If you use GNOME, you must upgrade gnome-session and gnome-control-center and
24 >> set your default browser/mail-client again.
25 >>
26 >> If you don't use GNOME, you should ensure that the file
27 >> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list has the following content:
28 >>
29 >> [Added Associations]
30 >> x-scheme-handler/http=$browser_name.desktop;
31 >> x-scheme-handler/https=$browser_name.desktop;
32 >> x-scheme-handler/mailto=$mailclient_name.desktop;
33 >>
34 >> Replace $browser_name.desktop and $mailclient_name.desktop with the appropriate
35 >> file from /usr/share/applications that can handle http/https/mailto URIs.
36 >>
37 >> Please make sure that your browsers and mail clients have been upgraded to the
38 >> latest stable versions before doing all this.
39
40 Can you link to the bug in the news item?
41
42 >
43 >
44 > --
45 > Alex Alexander | wired
46 > + Gentoo Linux Developer
47 > ++ www.linuxized.com
48 >

Replies