On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 03:18:27PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "TA" == Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes: > > TA> Now that I've pushed 2.6.4 out, and you've kindly put the tarballs > TA> in place, can you tell me if you've been able to do anything yet on > TA> this, in terms of Fedora packaging? > > Well, I've done an initial run and dropped one of the patches since it's > unneeded in the current version. The other patches still apply, and I'm > not entirely sure what to do with them in the context of Fedora. > > fvwm-2.5.30-mimeopen.patch > Calls mimeopen instead of $EDITOR || vi. Not sure why; obviously it > enables the use of a file-specific error, but the script says it's > just for plain text files.
Definitely don't care about this one. > files-2.5.30-more-mouse-buttons.patch > This fixes a real, reported bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548534 > It doesn't appear to harm anything, and undoing it would be a > regression for at least the poor guy with the ten button mouse. I'm > honestly not sure why this isn't acceptable for upstream. Because I've had real problems with just blindly increasing this in the past. > It is completely unused by Fedora. I suppose it might be useful to > someone somewhere (since there are several rpm-based distributions) but > it's pretty far away from Fedora's packaging standards. Hmm. I wonder what SuSE do? > By the way, Fedora's rpmlint complaint that the FSF address is incorrect > in most of the source files. They moved a while back and the bit in the > source should read: I'll add it to the list then, thanks. -- Thomas Adam -- "Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)
