On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:41:59PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: > 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.
They are used (in fact the kde support was fixed only recently by Kevin). > 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 I try to minitor changes in the OLPC branches and use what makes sense in fedora. There is a bug opened for update to 0.8.4, it is on my radar, but I'll gladly accept patches. I am in th eprocess of verifying that all the issues fixed by patches in 0.8.3 in fedora are indeed fixed in 0.8.4 upstream. > 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 some patches, especially since Kevin fixed (tough it is not definitive) the kde plugin. -- Pat _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
