Greetings Games SIG, this is a request for help in cleaning up one area of spec files that has affected a good many games packages. == Background == For Fedora 19 we're trying to get rid of the vendorization of .desktop files. This is a legacy of Fedora Extras and early Fedora days when Guidelines specified that .desktop files should be installed with: desktop-file-install --vendor "fedora" [...] It was realized after a few releases that desktop-file-install's --vendor flag caused issues because its implementation was to rename the .desktop file; prepending the value of vendor to the filename. In the past we decided that new packages would not use --vendor but that packages that already did so must keep doing so. This is because software that customized the menus would likely copy the .desktop file (complete with the vendor prefix). If we stopped installing with --vendor, anyone who customized those entries in their menus would end up with two entries because none of the software would be able to figure out that the entries were really for the same thing. For Fedora 19 we (FPC and FESCo) have decided that it's time to get rid of this legacy behaviour. If we can get rid of --vendor in all spec files for F19 and above, then users will only suffer ill effects once, when they upgrade from a previous release to F19. Getting rid of vendor will solve issues for GNOME3 and other softweare which doesn't handle the file renaming that --vendor does so now is a good time to do so. == Help Needed == I've assembled a list of packages that are installing .desktop files with vendorized filenames: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/Devendorize_desktop_files#List_of_affected_packages as well as some tips for porting spec files so that they can work on both Fedora 19+ and older Fedora and EPEL releases. a few provenpackagers have been working on the list of packages but it is a slow process with so many packages to change. It would be great if more people would join in. There are a lot of games in the list of packages so I was hoping that some people from the games SIG might either modify their own packages and check them off the list or, if they're provenpackagers, join in in porting any packages that are using --vendor to no longer use it in F19+. It would be great if we could get this done before Fedora 19 branches from rawhide (2013-03-12) as after that date we'll have to modify packages in two branches, the F19 and Rawhide trees. Thanks for any help, -Toshio
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