Hi Kelly, First off, thanks for the pointers. Will take a look. Don't know when, though.
Kelly Price writes: > And this is where I'm glad I run a source-compiled distro (Gentoo). Sorry but I fail to understand how that relates to recreating the XSane release history in a git repository and keeping out files that do not belong in such a repository (but may or may not be included in source tarballs). For example, the po/*.gmo files in the tarball you mention below do not belong in a git repository. Neither does include/config.h which should hold the results of running `./configure` on *your* machine (especially so when running Gentoo ;-P) and really shouldn't even be in the source archive. > I have the last latest release source (xsane-0.999) and some patches > developed by the Gentoo staff/volunteers. That may help out with > cleaning things up. Here's the links from a mirror: > > http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/distfiles/xsane-0.999.tar.gz > http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/distfiles/xsane-0.998-patches-2.tar.xz > http://mirrors.rit.edu/gentoo/distfiles/xsane-256x256.png > > You'll probably want to look at the patch set, which may help out with > your cleaning. At first glance, those patches aren't about cleaning but about fixing :-) When creating the repository, I was concerned about keeping files that don't belong in a git repository out, not about fixing things at some version of XSane. # BTW, you are aware of the fact that your links point to different # versions, right? Don't get me wrong, some of the patches you pointed at fix real issues and I welcome GitLab merge requests (one per patch please!) for those that are not distribution specific. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
