Subject: Re: [bug#75146] [PATCH v0 00/15] XFCE: Move source from generated archive to git.

From: 宋文武 <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:52:48 +0800

Ashvith Shetty <[email-masked]> writes:

> This patch series moves the source for XFCE applications and plugins 
> from the pre-generated archive file to their git source for quality 
> reasons (inconsistency between git and archive builds, 
> missing files in generated archive, etc).

Hello, could you explain more about those inconsistency and missing
files?  Build from git is more expensive than tarballs, as it download
more and need more dependencies, so I think we should avoid it if
possible.  We can switch some packages to git if their tarballs is
lacking functions, also report to upstream to fix them.

> This patch series also removes gtk-xfce-engine, a long-abandoned package,
> which had no dependant packages.

This package is still useful for GTK2 applications, we could update its
description and move it into 'gtk.scm' to avoid some confusions.

Thanks for the contributions!