On Wednesday 23 July 2003 00:22, Jaroslaw Zachwieja wrote: > On śro 23. lipca 2003 03:34, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > managing quality on contrib packages > > WHAT contribs? FreshRPMS? Sorry (to RH ppl) but their off-distribution > packages are kinda umm... quantum ;) Officially something's there, but in > real life it's either broken or nonexistant (or for 6.2:)
Actually there are many packages out there for Redhat 9, it's just that Redhat doesn't distribute them. I'd say that about half the new things I've packaged up for Mandrake contribs had a RH9 package (or RH8.x). (Scan the changelogs and you'll often see that the first comment says "based heavily on RH specfile from tarball" or "used specfile designed for RH9 as a starting point" or something similar.) The first practical effect of their big policy change is going to be that all of these packages suddenly become official Redhat contribs. This should not only make them easier for people to find, it should also mean more validation on the packaging, quicker updates (if the developer doesn't have the new RH beta, probably one of her users does), etc. On the other hand, the fact that it's so much easier to get stuff into Mandrake contribs may be part of the reason why, despite there being so many Mandrake-based developers out there, so few people put mdk RPMs on their sites. Or maybe it's just that Mandrake specfiles look so much more complicated (when actually they're simpler--more macros = less work, less chance for stupid errors, etc.). > PS. Isn't anyone bothered with first line of my mail? I think KMail should > have ability to bind language to profile. But this is wrong mailing list > to bitch about it, I know :) If I can (barely) live without client-side IMAP filtering, do you think something as minor as that is going to make me switch to Evolution? But actually, this sounds like a simple issue; it should be relatively easy to make a patch, and get it into kdenetwork (as opposed to client-side IMAP filtering--making a patch for that is nontrivial, and getting it accepted is nearly impossible). Meanwhile, Michael Scherer replied: > Of course, plf people never talked to any mdk people, they live in a > different country, and, there is no connection between them. Nah, they all live in France. So do all contributors. All the .ca, etc. addresses are just a ploy to confuse us. And PLF is an insidious French plot to subvert good honest American laws that are meant to take the rights from citizens of all countries and put them safely where they belong, in the hands of American media/technology conglomerates like CBS, NBC, Fox, Virgin, etc.
