[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi Alexander, > > IMO it’s not the distribution’s job to add entirely new files to > software packages. This patch should be submitted to the libmad > maintainers. If/when they approve it, Nixpkgs and all other distros > will get it. > > One of the undesirable side effects of such patches is that Nixpkgs > users can be fooled into thinking that ‘mad.pc’ is an upstream thing, > and write software that assumes its availability. > > Thus I’d be in favor of removing it from Nixpkgs and submitting it > upstream. What do you think?
Hi! I had to add this patch because mpd's configure script uses pkgconfig to find libmad. And that's because all major distributions (I think) install mad.pc. I checked Arch Linux, Gentoo and Debian. I don't think that removing this patch is necessary, but notifying upstream about current situation is. :) -- Alexander Tsamutali _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
