OLPC has forked their gnash-0.8.3 package because the upstream Fedora package had a pile of dependencies (for kde, etc) that they don't use.
I tried building a Fedora package from the 0.8.4 release, but the release tarball doesn't include the Fedora specs file (tho perhaps it is in the xyz tree? Or am I supposed to steal it from the 0.8.3 Fedora srpm and modify it?). As we make the 0.8.4 Fedora release, I recommend that we improve the package by merging the changes from the OLPC fork. Their change is briefly described among all the other OLPC-forked packages here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distro_version_migration_nastiness The SRPM for the forked package is here: http://mock.laptop.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=repos;a=blob_plain;f=SRPMS/gnash-0.8.3-1.olpc3.2.src.rpm;hb=767.koji If our 0.8.4 SRPM builds several binary packages, one of which is the configured-down OLPC one that has few dependencies, that'll solve the problem and heal a fork. (Hmm, does the real Fedora 10 alpha SRPM include any patches to gnash? If so, shouldn't we incorporate those, or start a dialog with the packager?) There are no 0.8.4 binary or srpm packages uploaded at getgnash.org, even days after the release. I would've thought that those binary packages would be built during the release process. If it won't build in the configuration used by the major distros, maybe it isn't quite ready for release yet; and if we didn't test that it could do so, ditto. And if we did test, why didn't we upload? John _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
