[bug#50438] [PATCH] gnu: thunar: Update to 4.17.1

[Michael Rohleder <mike@rohleder.de>]

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André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think, 4.17 is the development branch of xfce/thunar, no?
>>
>> (https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2021-02/msg00839.html)
>
> Oh, I wasn't aware of this.  I was confused myself, so I checked thunar's
> wikipedia page that states that the stable release is 4.17.1.  The
> latest is 4.17.5 so I thought it made sense.  
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunar

xfce has a release model like this:
https://www.xfce.org/about/releasemodel

Currently, this means 4.16 is the released version, 4.17 is the
development version (which becomes 4.18).

I think wikipedia is wrong here, because the announcement of 4.17.5
(https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2021-September/001059.html)
says:

...
Release notes for 4.17.5
========================
[Please note that this is a development release.]
...

> My goal with this patch was mainly to include gvfs.  I don't really care
> about the version.
>
> How shall I proceed?  Thanks.

Make a patch that just does that.
Maybe, it could be useful to mention the reason for the inclusion of
gvfs, but I'm not sure.


Regards
mike

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