Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 24 hour review for >= dev-libs/glib-2.28 stable news item

[Alex Alexander <wired@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:56:06PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> You have 24 hours to comment on this news item.  Sorry to put it so
> bluntly but this is required for major security bug (#364973).
> 
> See attachment.

Should be wrapped at 72 chars, but looks good otherwise, thanks :)


> Title: Upgrade to GLIB 2.28
> Author: GNOME Team <gnome@gentoo.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2011-04-26
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: <dev-libs/glib-2.28
> 
> The way of setting default URI handlers has changed since dev-libs/glib-2.28 
> and above. If you used the GConf registry to set them before, they will now
> be ignored.
> 
> If you use GNOME, you must upgrade gnome-session and gnome-control-center and 
> set your default browser/mail-client again.
> 
> If you don't use GNOME, you should ensure that the file
> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list has the following content:
> 
> [Added Associations]
> x-scheme-handler/http=$browser_name.desktop;
> x-scheme-handler/https=$browser_name.desktop;
> x-scheme-handler/mailto=$mailclient_name.desktop;
> 
> Replace $browser_name.desktop and $mailclient_name.desktop with the appropriate
> file from /usr/share/applications that can handle http/https/mailto URIs.
> 
> Please make sure that your browsers and mail clients have been upgraded to the 
> latest stable versions before doing all this.


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