Amarok 2.7.1 release considerations

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Matěj Laitl <matej at laitl.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
> for background information see thread: [amarok] src/context/engines/wikipedia:
> Fix crashes on track change (both with Phonon-GStreamer and Phonon-VLC).
>
> Markey wrote:
>> I suggest we go with a new branch from 2.7.0 and cherry-pick a couple of
>> important bugfixes, then tag as 2.7.1. We only need to release this for
>> Linux (does not affect Windows, AFAICS).
>
> Right, let's create a list of commits to include in advance so that we can
> discuss them. I suggest the following:
>
> d13bd618 (+ ChangeLog in 282a1b3a, 79591ea6) * Fix crashes on track change (BR
> 319371)
> 216c18bd * Drop support for treating MusicBrainz ids as track unique ids (BR
> 315329)
> 694fd360 * Fix typo in Nepomuk query which did not let track numbers show up
> in Amarok. (BR 311847)

Looking good. How about this one, it seems pretty important to me, and
the patch is tiny:

2e5fc7d2 * Fix inability to create database when home directory
contains non-ASCII characters. (BR 313914)

> ^^ I'm not sure whether the Nepomuk fix is important enough. Note that the
> commits cannot add/change i18n strings.

It's a micro patch, so why not. Looks completely safe.

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