On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 21:53 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 17:21 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > * [footnote] > > > Someone pointed out that the Fedora Extras folk have been discussing > > > the xmlstar tool but so far have avoided in because of the "ambiguous > > > package name". Even its author uses at least three different names > > > for it on the web pages. With the power of an RPM patch file, we can > > > include the tool using any name we like. With proper attribution in > > > the SPEC file, we can name it anything we like. No huhu. > > > > It looks like from the discussion you referenced that the original > > packager has dropped out of the running. Shall I email him and see if > > he minds me picking up the package instead? I don't mind patching it > > and getting it into FE if it will help us move down this road by the > > time of FC5t2 or t3. > > I wouldn't say I've "dropped out"; I haven't heard from upstream and > have been too busy to deal with it. If you want it then by all means > take it. Pardon my poor choice of words -- was in a hasty rush to make the kids some dinner. :-) I meant "withdrawn the package for now." We are really interested in this package, so if you don't have time to do it we (by which I mean "I," at least as far as this package goes) would be happy to help, and you have our thanks for bringing it up to this point. > Also, it wasn't the package name but the binary name. "xml" was > designated to be too generic. I did have a patch for it IIRC; let me > look around. If you thought you'd have to time *review* the package for Extras that would probably be a huge help! Thanks Ignacio! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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