I've just taken over maintenance of moodle. I'm planning to update the FC-5 and FC-6 branches to 1.6.5 to fix some security problems. I'm also going to update the devel branch to 1.8 for the same reason, and because we might as well get the latest version into devel. I need some advice on two questions I have. First, CVS has an FC-4 directory under moodle. Do I need to maintain that? I thought FC 4 had been end-of-lifed. As a general interest question, when a distribution is end-of-lifed, do package maintainers need to do anything special to dump the affected directories, or does some CVS administrator work magic to make them disappear eventually? Second, the current moodle RPM copies everything in the source directory install/lang to lang. This results in the language files being included in the main RPM twice, once in each place, and also in individual language RPMs. In addition to this goof, some previous packager misunderstood the purpose of those files. They are not supposed to be moved out of install/lang. They are language files for the installation process only, which we partially automate anyway. The language files for actual use are here: http://download.moodle.org/lang16/ The language file names do not change as they are updated. However, there is a date stamp on that web page for each language file, allowing us to keep track of which version is in a given RPM. I can see two ways of dealing with this situation, each with pros and cons. 1) Download all of the language files and include them in one monolithic moodle SRPM. Split out the installation and use files for each language into a language subpackage. This lets us keep all the files for a particular language in one place, but means that anytime an individual language file gets updated, we have to rebuild the whole thing. 2) Embrace the fact that the installation language files are small (a few hundred bytes to a few K apiece), and partially unnecessary anyway. Just put them into the main moodle package (once!). Create separate SRPMs for each language file with the date stamp for the version number. Now language packs can be updated individually, but this also means that I will suddenly be the maintainer for 60+ additional packages in which I have no personal interest. Any advice? Thanks, -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor Jerry.James@xxxxxxx Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
