Question: About indicator-session in AUR about aur HOT 3 CLOSED

Yeah, indicators can be used by the Pantheon greeter and wingpanel, their top panel. Actually both work with 12.10 indicators (via a compile-time option) and the newest ones which use gtk3-ubuntu. However, patching gtk3 is a complete heresy and Arch Linux will never agree to that, ever. We only provide vanilla packages, and I won't be able to include Pantheon in our repos if it depends on gtk3-ubuntu.

That also goes for AUR, packages should try to depend on unpatched packages, and they also should be built from an official tarball, not a snapshot. If you want the latest indicators, you can use the bzr version or create indicator-session-ubuntu for example, so people know they need the horrible gtk3-ubuntu on their systems and that they will break everything :)

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Hello @alucryd ,

I think the bzr version isn't needed anymore, since the indicator-session project is not under active development now, and every single commit would be tagged and released. https://code.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-session/trunk.15.04 shows that every single commit is tagged and released and not just a snapshot. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/+source/indicator-session shows that there are official tarballs for those releases.

Removing indicator-session-bzr and creating indicator-session-ubuntu instead would be a good idea. Actually, I have filed a request to merge indicator-session-bzr into indicator-session two weeks ago and planning that once it was done, I will upload the package indicator-session-ubuntu. But no response so far.

Excuse me, one more question: Why did you decide to remove the translation files for indicator-session in commit 262d9bb . That's the only difference from 12.10.4-4 to 12.10.4-5 , and I am puzzled. 😕

Hope for your reply! 😍

Yours sincerely! 🙇

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Nah, keeping the bzr package around is useful because you don't need to bump it every once in a while. BTW, no matter how you look at them, those are snapshots, not release tarballs. What kind of a release number is 12.10.5+15.04.20150327-0ubuntu1?

As for translations, I removed them because they're too old. It was City-Busz who was hosting them keeping them up to date. He stopped caring a while ago, and as I care even less, I decided to drop them altogether. Doesn't change much anyway.

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