Hello Joe, On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 23:15, Joe Drew wrote: > I'm the gnome-vfs-extras2 maintainer. I did something dumb and uploaded > version 0.99.11 to unstable a while back; as it turns out, its smb > support is totally unusable. See the bugs: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119172 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129410 > > Upstream seems to have no interest in fixing at least the former, though > I've never seen them to be responsive to any bugs filed.
No, the first bug has been filed upstream (ie. in Samba's bugzilla), and no, I don't have time to work on it right now. The second one isn't a gnome-vfs-extras bug, it's a libsmbclient bug. > Now clearly these will need to be fixed going forward, and I'm asking > for help from people who have some time to investigate both bugs. See https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700 You just need to write a small testcase using libsmbclient, and show that it actually spits out spurious authentication requests when browsing smb:/// > But in the mean time, I think I will file for gnome-vfs-extras2 to be > removed from unstable and testing. I don't think the previous version > (0.99.8) works properly with the new Nautilus (but correct me if I'm > wrong), and this version doesn't work well enough. 0.99.8 should work fine as well. There's currently 0.99.10 in Fedora, as the 0.99.11 suffered from libsmbclient's youth at the time of release. The current CVS HEAD version should work much better, but that's for GNOME 2.6. > Opinions? See above. BTW, filing bugs and sending an e-mail 10 minutes afterwards complaining of having not received a response is a bit droll. About being unresponsive, I also have other things I'm working on, and I only have so much time for hacking on Free Software. Still, I can only see 9 bugs opened in bugzilla.gnome.org and only a few of them could be labelled as show-stoppers. I'd really rather see patches and test cases than what looks like uninformed e-mails like this one. Cheers --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
