Re: Wine packaging - part 2 - what RPM/DEBs do

[Jeremy White]

> Unfortunately, it would be sort of hard to collectively hack on it unless
> Alexandre wants to put it in CVS.  Many other projects have an RPM .spec and
> debian files in them as shipped, especially all of the GNOME stuff, so it would
> not be out of line (and in fact would be beneficial) to have these in CVS.
> Distributions can still easily change the build process to suit their own
> needs, but at least we would be providing something to start with.
> Unfortunately, I think there were several very loud voices against this, which
> I cannot understand, but I guess they had their reasons.  Personally I feel
> Ove's debian building stuff should go into the tree as well as an rpm .spec
> file.
>

    I don't recall a discussion in which putting the spec file building
stuff in CVS was rejected.  I think it's a great idea to have it in CVS.
Did I miss something?  I suppose Alexandre is the real authority,
because he's the one who'll bounce any patch sent in...  Alexandre?

    Jer