Re: List of packages including country flags

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > I did a quick survey from Fedora on what software Fedora users are using > that is not available in the repo. Here are the results. If you find > anything interesting, feel free to pick it up. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packag

Re: List of packages including country flags

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:53:12AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: (Obviously it'll be Fedora/free software-related content) >>> You can always make a request to Infrastructure at >>> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/. We've hosted some >

Re: rawhide report: 20090523 changes

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Large data sets derived from analysing the code in Fedora packages... I was hoping to save the announcement til later. For the purposes of this, big data files, derived from Fedora content so under a free license of some sort, probably up to 30GB

Re: PolicyKit changes in F12

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Caroline Meeks wrote: > Luke and Sasha are working on a new USB format that they feel will allow > more machines to boot and support VM + Stick > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/USB_format > > Perhaps the issue you are running into (which we have definitely seen > before) is relat

Re: kernel/accounting question ...

2009-12-16 Thread Kevin Kofler
mail I already received back in 2006. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Question about a lib requires

2009-12-18 Thread Kevin Kofler
kage for that sort of binaries. Plus, /usr/bin is one of the directories covered by primary.sqlite.bz2. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
sed for builds, and it's also possible to create branches with names which look like build tags, which also get through validation.) Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Koji stuck?

2009-12-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: > The temporary work-around is to compile with > > -fno-var-tracking-assignments We also need that for some of our KDE packages. GCC really needs to get fixed! Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.r

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-20 Thread Kevin Kofler
addition to being a regression from our current CVS setup, which does allow creating such branches)! Branching is really part of what VCSs are for. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
ed by Koji, so I had to branch and rebuild a new one. I used the "create a branch with a name which looks like a build tag to the tag validator" hack and branched kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0_9-0_3_20090930svn_fc12_x, then built off that branch. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-l

Re: Mass rebuild for F13?

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > Seriously, this "comment about the patch in the specfile" is a > packaging requirement, not a personal request. It's not a requirement, it's only a SHOULD. If there are good reasons not to do it, it's OK not to do it. Kevin Kofler

Re: Release Milestones for the Masses

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > It didn't help that the names changed for F12. Yeah, I think that name change was a mistake, but sadly my proposal to revert it was voted down in FESCo. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
that the buildsystem will not allow any official > (non-scratch) builds to happen from a private-* branch. And as I wrote before, I don't like this at all, it's a regression from our current workflow and it defeats the point of the much-touted easy branching with git. Kevin Kof

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jarod Wilson wrote: > On 12/22/09 2:45 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> And as I wrote before, I don't like this at all, it's a regression from >> our current workflow > > Define "our". "Our current workflow" = what Fedora's current CVS setup

Re: New covenant published (was: Re: moonlight and the new covenant)

2009-12-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
;s standards with proprietary extensions). As the patent license is non-Free, Moonlight still has to be considered non- Free wherever software patents apply. So as far as I can tell, this is not acceptable for Fedora, sorry. (But of course spot and/or RH Legal will have the final

Re: Vala programs and compiling from source

2009-12-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
urce code??? Some of the generated C code is not that different from the above. IMHO generated code does not belong into source tarballs at all. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: All I want for Christmas is digiKam 1.0 in F12-stable...

2009-12-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
e the old package before installing the new one. Actually, it installs the new package first, replacing any files from the old one without reporting them as a conflict, then removes the files from the old package which are not in the new one. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list

Re: dist-git proof of concept phase 2 ready for testing

2009-12-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
few of us rely on this in their workflow). One branch per distro version is not enough. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Mono.Cecil & monodevelop-debugger-mdb

2009-12-25 Thread Kevin Kofler
body competent in C# tried to patch MonoDebugger to work with the new Mono.Cecil and failed due to some unsurmountable obstacle. If none of you Mono SIG folks is fluent in C#, then that's a problem that needs solving first of all. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedo

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
y. Using old components just because they're audited is not the Fedora way, sorry. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
hat at least conforms to our packaging guidelines, I think this is still against Fedora policies, in particular the Fedora Objectives. We want to ship the current software, not old audited one. Fedora is not a certified distribution, it's an up-to-date distribution. Kevin Kofler

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
aging practice at this point? Yes. Common practice in Fedora is to just use current software and forget about audits. Fedora is not a certified distribution. > Any alternative suggestions? See above. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: ABRT considered painful

2009-12-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: > What's wrong with ABRT? My main beef with it is that it reports its crashes to the downstream bug tracker when really the right people to fix them are the upstream developers. KCrash/DrKonqi is much better there. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list

Re: packaging a static library

2009-12-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
n just because it went through some sort of formal audit and/or certification. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Mono.Cecil & monodevelop-debugger-mdb

2010-01-01 Thread Kevin Kofler
veral different versions of the same library in a distribution. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: packages up for adoption

2010-01-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
SIG folks might pick these up if nobody else wants them. I'm hereby forwarding this to the fedora-kde ML. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Our static Libraries packaging guidelines once more

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
things pass basic packaging-level QA (builds and has no broken deps) does not and should not require signing up to sort out any and all issues with the package. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: yum-presto and comps

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
in the .ks because we refused to add it to @kde-desktop as it has nothing to do with KDE). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Common Lisp apps in Fedora

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
asn't aware that it didn't actually work at all at this time and I strongly doubt the rest of FESCo was either. It makes no sense to have a packaging guideline mandate using something which doesn't work. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@

Re: PolicyKit changes in F12

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
than you claim or the new PolicyKit is just not powerful enough to support everything the old one did, both of which would be bad things). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: PolicyKit changes in F12

2009-05-23 Thread Kevin Kofler
rted is the big effort (and a working PolicyKit-kde is important for things like PackageKit). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: List of packages including country flags

2009-05-24 Thread Kevin Kofler
el, either from the listing > locale string or the regional setting. So Aussies, Kiwi, Singaporean can > use their own flags (instead of American flags), everybody is happy. :-) Please propose these UI improvements to KDE upstream. They have nothing to do with Fedora's policy on flags in

Re: dependency errors while upgrading from F10 to Rawhide (F11)

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michael Schwendt wrote: > [And as long as there is no F11 GA repo yet, you need to enable rawhide > manually.] Actually no, as the mirrorlists redirect you automatically. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/li

Re: Why not to create Fedora-us and Fedora-non-us branches?

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
ematic, creating it outside of the US would mean favorable tax laws could be chosen as well. That said, RH may still get into trouble for contributory infringement, and with a non-US foundation, RH may even get accused of tax evasion, so I'm not that surprised they aren't thrilled by the idea

Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting

2009-05-27 Thread Kevin Kofler
ignore by default. Why not have both? In fact that's what Debian is doing: Recommends is 1., Suggests is 2., and of course the default can be changed (you can choose to drag everything in or to ignore even Recommends). So why don't we do the same in RPM and Yum? Kevin Kofler --

Re: How to create header.info file

2009-05-27 Thread Kevin Kofler
Pavel Lisy wrote: > I know but I am not member of centos list Then subscribe there. That was a really lame excuse for posting CentOS questions to a Fedora development list. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mail

Re: Why not to create Fedora-us and Fedora-non-us branches?

2009-05-27 Thread Kevin Kofler
ping things like hardware MP3 players without a license (even if the MP3 codec is implemented in software), some devices got confiscated at CeBit. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: gnaughty is a hot babe

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
then the burden should be > on them to maintain the list of packages that don't comply, not > Fedora. +1 Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
t to name RPM Fusion, because the content in RPM Fusion is not illegal around here. Oops, how many times did RPM Fusion appear in this paragraph? ;-) Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
t didn't make any sense, instead there should be no restrictions other than a license compatible with that of the kernel, and of course the restrictions applying to all packages). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mai

Re: Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
by using a Bodhi grouped update, which would make this much less of an issue. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
st every time, even to the modules FESCo had previously approved as kmods (em8300, sysprof). They now sit as kmods in RPM Fusion. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: gnaughty is a hot babe

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
bly not even his second language, I don't think he means what you think he means. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: rawhide report: 20090528 changes

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
hat KMS is disabled on these chipsets. You > seem to be saying it is actually enabled by default? That's not the last change, it's the change in -164. The changelog is not properly ordered. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Packaging Survey - May 2009

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
ple caring about it need to organize a fork as soon as possible. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: gnaughty is a hot babe

2009-05-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jussi Lehtola wrote: > For instance, creationists might consider anything that has to do with > evolution (such as evolution simulations or gene programs) as > controversial Or even the mail client which happens to be called "Evolution". Kevin Kofler -- fedora-deve

Re: gnaughty is a hot babe

2009-05-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
edora packagers to do the work for you. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: rawhide report: 20090528 changes

2009-05-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
st? All I care about is that the order is consistent! Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting

2009-05-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
aveats about those cases seem correct, though. IMHO, Suggests(post) should just be an error, it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Things needed in scriptlets need to be hard requirements. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting

2009-05-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
installed, but we don't have to do anything if it isn't, because it means it doesn't need to run in the first place". It doesn't make sense to Suggests(post) anything there. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Mono (& Moonlight) Licensing? Revisited

2009-05-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
ant to use the proprietary codec pack from M$ (yuck!). So it's no use arguing about whether Moonlight itself is patent-encumbered or not. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
get date very closely. :-) But I don't see those slips as a big issue in the first place. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
a work branch and targeted for a later release. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
Matthew Woehlke wrote: > It's too bad fedora-test-list doesn't seem to be on gmane (or isn't > named obviously; gmane.org is being too slow for me to ask about the > mail address). gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailin

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Kofler
't see why it should be the maintainer's job to play the relaying monkey. We're not carrier pigeons. We can't even CC the reporter on the upstream bug unless they register an account there, and at that point they can just as well file the bug themselves. Kevin

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
as the best solution to make sure the > issues get to where they need to be. And I'll add that we KDE maintainers will reopen the bug if it gets closed UPSTREAM, but we feel it needs to be fixed within Fedora. It's not like mistakes can't be easily undone. Kevin Kofler

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
ple our KDE gets upgraded to a bugfix release about once a month). As maintainers, we will also try to CC ourselves on those upstream bugs to track their status, but utilimately it's the reporter who cares the most about seeing his/her bug fixed. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
are we to know whether it's fixed or whether we just don't have enough information on how to reproduce it?) and/or refuses to report the issue to the people who're actually able to fix it. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
ier, the point is that the information is required, those "complicated" forms are there to request the information we need. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
). > This occasionally applies to developers - To normal users it usally > doesn't apply, they want "to have their issue fixed". Then they need to do what it takes to get their issue fixed. Talking to upstream, helping with tracking the bug down etc. are all part of that.

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
are the cause why at least some people sense a > foul taste when listening to them. Then let's say: Report bugs, to the right place of course (usually upstream)! Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
uess other codebases where bugs are expected to be filed upstream (e.g. Evolution, which was also brought up in this thread) are similar. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
; need a co-maintainer(s) or less packages. So do you volunteer to be the bug forwarding monkey for KDE SIG? Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
ssarily want to just hope upstream will fix. Of course, critical showstoppers need to be tracked within the distro. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
oncerned the issue is closed. As for those cases where the upstream maintainer is the same as the Fedora maintainer, in those cases the maintainer will still have an open bug, the upstream one, he/she doesn't need 2 of them either. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-dev

Re: [Bug 484862] GConf2-dbus : Conflicts with other packages

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
7;t need a patched GConf at all. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: (Most) Results from the Candidate Questionnaire are available now

2009-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
tion of the final times needs to happen much earlier (though thankfully the tentative times which got announced beforehand were the final ones anyway). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
ponsible for reporting it to the appropriate place, * or the user does not care about having the bug fixed, that's fine with me, we can just close it, less work for me. ;-) If somebody actually cares, he/she'll report it upstream. If nobody cares, why bother fixing it? Kevin Kofler

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
ository. We can build a patched package if there's a fix to try, but that doesn't mean the user shouldn't be CCed on or the reporter of the upstream bug as well, it just means we should be CCed too (which we usually are, unless we forget for some reason, we're just human too).

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
eam is quite rude. The users are getting something for free, it's not their right to complain about the gift horse saying they wanted a pony instead. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
issue is how upstream would validate the e-mail addresses we're entering in the CC list if we forward our bug (including CC) into their Bugzilla instance. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
f the bug is important enough to block one of our trackers, we won't close it UPSTREAM, we'll even try to fix it on our own (and then upstream our fix) if upstream doesn't come up with a fix soon enough. But we can't reserve that treatment to every single KDE bug, there are too man

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
n.) But until that happens, there's no reason for the packager to be involved. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Packager = Programmer?

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
ust need to write one or more specfile(s) which follow(s) our guidelines. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michal Hlavinka wrote: > Yes, but how will you notice reporter needs (your) help if bug is closed > upstream? By CCing ourselves on the upstream bug when we close ours. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/li

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
is a service we do to end users. If they don't want to use the service the way we provide it, that's fine with me, we can just close their stuff as INSUFFICIENT_DATA and move on. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
many bug reports to keep track of all of them. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
racked in a random distribution's bug tracker? Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
de closed bugs. > Also by closing unresolved bugs you are inviting duplicate bug reports. Because Bugzilla is broken. See above. Let's fix Bugzilla. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
address I use on the KDE Bugzilla is the same showing up in the "From" header of this mail). AFAIK, Rex (rdieter at math.unl.edu) also likes to be CCed on those bugs. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
're also welcome to reopen bugs if upstream has a fix and you want us to backport it (but please don't do this if the fixed release is coming soon anyway and the bug is not critical). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Packager = Programmer?

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
bably because there's nothing to fix. So maintenance workload and required skills can vary a lot from package to package. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
never ever report bugs Your misunderstanding is there: it's US maintainers that are helping YOU reporters by fixing your bugs. If you think you don't need our help because you don't care about the bug anyway, we can just close it as INSUFFICIENT_DATA and stop there. Kevin Kofle

Re: Action requested: check dist tags and conditionals

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
sue for %{?rhel} when we'll reach RHEL 10, which will happen in more or less 8 years if RHEL continues at its current pace. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: the end of life for flash player (HTML5)

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
any video player. But HTML 5 with patent-free codecs is clearly the solution we should all fight for! (But hardcoded checks for only Firefox aren't!) Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Action requested: check dist tags and conditionals

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jeremy Sanders wrote: > %if 0%{?fedora} >= 8 That should be: %if 0%{?fedora} >= 8 || 0%{?rhel} >= 6 Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: the end of life for flash player (HTML5)

2009-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
w output selection is implemented, they use a backend-specific "GStreamer sink" setting in addition to the standard output device setting in the Phonon API, with the result that, last I checked, it didn't work out of the box with our default PulseAudio setup). Kevin

Re: Interested in scanning?

2009-06-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
tion, Skanlite, should really go into Fedora. There was a review request, but it got closed because the submitter vanished. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: GDM Language list...

2009-06-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel wrote: > There is yet another dependency of "internet connection" here... An Internet connection (and a reasonably fast one at that) is basically required to use Fedora effectively. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedo

Re: Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros

2009-06-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
in, like it is in KDE and MinGW, we're not calling kde4-config each time to figure out where to put files!). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Mono (& Moonlight) Licensing? Revisited

2009-06-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
p a semi-working Moonlight with no audio/video support in Fedora rather than RPM Fusion? That makes no sense whatsoever. And as has been said in this thread, Moonlight itself is also patent-encumbered. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.re

Re: Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros

2009-06-06 Thread Kevin Kofler
yersinia wrote: > In @rpm5.org, yes. rpm5.org is not the upstream for Fedora's RPM. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Question about web applications

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
crashing users' browsers. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: Action requested: check dist tags and conditionals

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
ple, it will be expanded to "%if 010 <= 8 || 0 <= 5", > which will be true because 0 is less than 5. (I'm assuming that "||" is > the "or" operator from C.) Right, this shouldn't be ||, it needs to be &&. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-

Re: More mock problems

2009-06-07 Thread Kevin Kofler
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 00:40 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Neal Becker wrote: >> > rpmdb: Program version 4.7 doesn't match environment version 4.5 >> >> You need at least RPM 4.6 on the host systems to build Rawhide packages, &g

Re: the end of life for flash player (HTML5)

2009-06-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
ed by the user.) Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: File Triggers (was Re: Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros)

2009-06-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
uild tool first to generate a proper one). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: rpms/polkit-gnome/devel polkit-gnome.spec, NONE, 1.1 .cvsignore, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.1, 1.2

2009-06-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
ply being co-owned by PolicyKit-gnome is the easiest solution (even if technically less clean than a gnome-filesystem package). Kevin Kofler -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list

Re: File Triggers (was Re: Proposal (and yes, I'm willing to do stuff!): Must Use More Macros)

2009-06-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Kevin Kofler > wrote: >> The makefile could also be autogenerated from an unknown build tool > > Makefiles generated by e.g. automake have easily detectable patterns. > Try "head Makefile". I wrote "UN

Re: Maintainer Responsibilities

2009-06-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Kevin Kofler writes: > >> [...] If the bug is important enough to block one of our trackers, >> we won't close it UPSTREAM, we'll even try to fix it on our own (and >> then upstream our fix) if upstream doesn't come up with a

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