On 7/31/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:10:07 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > > Hi > > > > The version of fish in Fedora extras is pretty out of date. To make > > things worse, fedora 4 has a more recent fish version than fedora 5/6, > > causing upgrade troubles. There are source rpms for fish available at > > the main fish site, http://roo.no-ip.org/fish. Specifically, the > > latest fish version is > > http://roo.no-ip.org/fish/files/1.21.10/fish-1.21.10-0.src.rpm. This > > source rpm compiles under both fedora 4 and fedora 5, and fixes > > various bugs in the fish versions available in extras today. > > > > Would someone with commit rights consider uploading this to Extras? > > You might want to be the first to try out the AWOL maintainers procedure: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/AWOL_Maintainers Actually, Axel and Oliver are supposed to be working together, since if my memory serves correctly, Oliver only served as a proxy into FE CVS for Axel. But this is not the first time this method has failed. I don't know, however, how both have decided to communicate about updates.
You are correct, Oliver has been kind enough to upload previous releases. Unfortunately, my last 2 emails (sent in June) to him have been unanswered, I supposed he felt he didn't have time to babysit me any more(Perfectly understandable, this is a volunteer effort), or it might possibly be email trouble. As such I thought I'd go on list and ask how to proceed.
How about signing up as a Fedora Extras Contributor?
I could do that. I have a bugzilla account, (liljencrantz@xxxxxxxxx), and I belive I have performed all steps outlined on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors up until 'Get Sponsored' except 'Make review request', but that should be superflous, since the package I want to become a contributor for is already in extras, was originally created by me, put through a review process, etc. Anyone willing to sponsor me? That said, the package has a kludge in it that didn't exist at the time of the original review. A utility shipped with fish needs various X headers to compile, and the name of the package providing X headers has changed from fc3 to fc4, and the file location has changed from fc4 to fc5, to work around that and make a single package that builds on all fedoras, I had to do a semi-ugly hack using a %define in the spec: %define xinclude %( if test -d /usr/X11R6/include; then echo /usr/X11R6/include; else echo /usr/include; fi ) I asked on the main rpm mailing list how to do this and used the pointers I got, but if anyone has a better suggestion, I'd be happy to listen.
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