Hi Karl, branching is not a pain for this kind of purpose. Just branch off the repository state of 1.5.1 (I guess there is a tag available), apply the one-liner, and release a 1.5.1.1. A bugfix release. That should have been the answer to the problems at hand, not a patch.
mg Am 14.09.10 11:58, schrieb Karl Kleinpaste: > Jaak Ristioja <risti...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Why not branch? >> > Because branching is a whole new world of pain, for something as > straightforward as a workaround patch for a curl library bug. It's a > one-line patch, for pity's sake. > > >> Since there has probably been no announcement from Sword that distros >> should patch, >> > Um... Procession from false assumption. Anyone who's involved enough > to be doing distribution of Sword software ought to be involved enough > to be seeing discussion about such things as the curl bug and its patch > here. > > When the bug was encountered, there was rather a lot of activity about > it. Anyone who didn't see it...just wasn't watching. > > >> If I remember correctly, an OpenSUSE user was the last to report the >> bug to BibleTime, so maybe OpenSUSE still has it unpatched. >> > No. Brian Dumont <bdum...@ameritech.net> is on top of that, and has > informed me in the past that appropriate updates were available as of > Aug 05. > > Whether updated builds get to the field properly is a whole different > question -- e.g. we have the annoying nightmare that a Xiphos display > workaround release for an xulrunner bug, fixed in May, hasn't gotten > back to Ubuntu repositories, though it's available elsewhere just fine > (via CrossWire's Ubuntu PPA for Sword builds). > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
