Radu-Cristian FOTESCU a écrit :
André,
No matter what my e-mail address is, I am not in Canada, but in Romania.
Ok. So you're close (in time zone) to most contributors :)
Anyway, I'll think of packaging once I fix some other issues. Right now I'm
investigating a very
peculiar crash in KCharSelect (an upstream issue), which actually means
KCharSelect crashes when
a bad font is used (DejaVu _is_ having some bad issues). As I am not familiar
with Qt4/KDE
development, it's a kinky issue. And the bug is not where it seems to be. (I
can't report the
bug right now, but if you want details, ask me.) I am stunned that such an
application like
KCharSelect can crash such badly and nobody fixes it (yes, to reproduce the bug
you must know to
identify the actual conditions, however there are some upstream bug reports
about this crashes,
poorly defined). This being said, CharMap in Windows _never_ crashed, in no
version of Windows,
whereas KCharSelect _always_ crashes, from KDE 4.0 onwards. If I won't be able
to pinpoint the
bug (yes, I want to fix it), I might reconsider one more time using KDE4 (hence
Linux) on my
laptop, as this is utterly ridiculous to have KCharSelect crashing ...
Maybe KCharSelect wasn't updated for KDE 4 ?
Why not use gucharmap ? It seems complete, is desktop-neutral, and has never
given me any problems.
It's on the regular mageia dvd's (but not the dual). And of course in the
repositories.
Problem solved :)
When I started, I was able to package my favorite application to start with,
hopefully you can
do the same, if it's not too complicated. (Since you indicate that it doesn't
have
dependancies to/from other packages, I suspect that it would be relatively
straight-forward.)
It needs Python 2.7 and whatnot, but this is not an issue. (I've packaged some
RPMs in 2009,
just not for Mandriva, for EL5-compatible distros.)
Python 2.7 is in Mageia 1.
If you've already had a Mandriva packaging account, you already qualify to be a
Mageia packager.
Otherwise you have to be mentored, but being familiar with packaging, it should be a very quick
process :)
R-C
--
André
