Jakob Bohm via Courier-imap writes:
On 2021-01-26 14:39, Sam Varshavchik wrote:PICCORO McKAY Lenz writes:This kind of a hacksaw solution to fork off "pkill" is fine for a custom, local hack. But this is not a practical, general solution for a number of reasons. The correct solution is to determine what's broken with gam_server, and fix it.And how is anyone supposed to do that, if the gamin project is inactive, as previously reported by Mr. Picorro?
Try to figure out what the issue is. Assuming that the bug has been identified, As a formality, submit it to upstream, first. The gamin's project page is https://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/. The developers information page states "We expect bug reports to be entered in GNOME bugzilla or in Red Hat bugzilla". Just so you're on the record as notified the upstream. At that point, several options become available.
The license is LGPLV2, so throw the whole thing on github, with your fix. This is free software. Anyone with the skills can fix it. If others will benefit from your fix, you're now the new project owner.
History is replete with projects that were forked from the original maintainers due to maintaince issues. gcc was forked at point. X11 was forked into x.org, so successfully that the original upstream closed up shop.
I note that veillard is, or was, a Red Hat employee. Fedora's gamin package appears to include a bunch of patches in addition to the upstream source. I have not experienced any issues on Fedora. There's a fair chance that whatever the issue is, it's fixed by one of Fedora's patches.
So the easiest thing someone who's having this problem can do is pull Fedora's patches, apply it to your distro's gamin build, and see if that fixes it. If so, throw the whole thing on github.
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