-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sander Hoentjen wrote: > Hi, > > I am the maintainer of aMSN in Extras, and there is currently a bug in > the FE version of aMSN. Do you have a bugzilla #? This bug occurs because upstream aMSN uses it's > own modified version of BWidget. Most of the changes are minor so that > is why it was decided to use the already packaged bwidget version for FE > amsn. It turns out however that one of the changes is really needed. I > reported this change to upstream and I hope they will incorporate it but > i haven't had a reply yet (only 2 days since i reported, so it can still > come). > In the meantime the bug is still there, and there are a few possible > fixes: > 1) I put the modified bwidget in the amsn package and use that Ick. Please no. > 2) I modify amsn so it can work with the bwidget that is in extras (it > will result in a bit reduced functionality (not being able to choose > chat font color anymore) Doesn't amsn already work around these private bwidget changes? I seem to recall that amsn redefines some of the bwidget procs after bwidgets has been loaded. Can a similar thing be done here? > 3) a small patch is applied to bwidget (which is 100% backwards > compatible, it only adds an optional option) As the FE maintainer of bwidget, I'd be willing to add this patch to the FE package. File a bug against bwidget in bugzilla.redhat.com and attach your patch. > My hope is the change will be in upstream bwidget in the future, and if > that would happen option 3 seems the nicest one, but if it won't happen > i would prefer option 1. What are others (wart?) opinions about this? Upstream bwidgets seems to be a bit slow about making new releases (the last one was in 2003), so the best option seems to be to patch bwidget in FE. - --Wart -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEzk8/DeYlPfs40g8RAvDiAJ9VL7ZN/eTWr7fF1XJB3T+wbA28VgCeP9Aw X68YZESQTcG3mrtIt1rBvnA= =Ci6L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
