Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>   
>> The ETA is "when it's ready".
>>     
>
> After this long of a delay, I hope people can understand if I ask for a
> little more precision than that.  I don't object to a ship date of "when
> it's ready and no sooner", but it would help if we could know precisely
> what still remains to be done in order to make it ready.
>
>   
>> Ben has been running clean builds of the several hundred packages that
>> will be affected by this update, to catch build problems, missing
>> dependencies, ... so that users don't wind up with busted systems.
>>     
>
> Which packages are broken?  Have the maintainers been informed?  Who is
> working on fixing these packages, and do they need help?
>   
They're all in the pangocairo-branch.  Basically it's everything that
depends on gtk+2.  I'm not sure what the status is.  If you want to help
with Ben's buildfink runs, you'll need to take it up with him.
> Like Tristan, I am very willing to help with this process.  But the
> process appears to lack transparency, and that makes it difficult for
> interested parties to do anything more than stand on the sidelines and
> say "what's going on?"
>
>
>   


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