Plan for tomorrows (20070125) FESCO meeting

[Paul Howarth]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:33:27 -0500, Brian Pepple wrote:
> 
>> You want something to be discussed? Send a note to the list in reply to
>> this mail and I'll add it to the schedule (I can't promise we will get
>> to it tomorrow, but we'll most likely will if we don't run out of time).
>> You can also propose topics in the meeting while it is in the "Free
>> discussion around Fedora Extras" phase.
> 
> /topic FESCO-Meeting -- Extras 7 preparation -- roadmap, broken deps,
> key packages (wxGTK2 issues solved?), rebuilds, FE7Target bug, mail
> to all package owners?

Regarding wxGTK2, I'm not sure that all is well there yet. The current 
stable release of the official BitTorrent client (the bittorrent package 
in Extras) is developed using wx 2.6.x and doesn't work out of the box 
with 2.8.x due to some code that specifically requests version 2.6. If 
this code is tweaked to request version 2.8, the GUI client gets as far 
as displaying the main window and then segfaults in a logging routine. 
Working around that one just leads to another segfault somewhere else 
and it ends up as a game of whack-a-mole with segfaults (see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223623).

The upstream BitTorrent maintainer reckons that the wxPython appears to 
be broken. I don't know either way, but if someone more familiar with 
wxPython could take a look at it, I'd be most grateful.

The same problems occur on Rawhide and on FC6 with the wxGTK and 
wxPython 2.8 SRPMs from the devel branch rebuilt on FC6 (i.e. it's not a 
python 2.5 problem). With the FC6 wx 2.6 packages, the GUI client works OK.

Paul.