Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: new - A simple template system https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250040 ------- Additional Comments From rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-10-02 01:49 EST ------- (In reply to comment #16) >The objection regarding the configure/check warning is more appropriate to be >submitted as a bug against new. I fail to see why this would be relevant to >approving the package, other than violating Ralf's personal preferences. The >message clearly says "warning," so it is obviously not fatal. A configure script's warning normally indicates that a package is missing something which will cause it to functionally regress. With you seemingly being the upstream, I would have expected you to improve this rpm or to improve upstream's sources. > As far as the name, new has been in development since 1999. It has been > included > in several distributions, including Fedora (I am only resubmitting it because > the package was orphaned). Shipped by you, seeminly maintained in Fedora by you. Last patch applied to CVS on 2007-08-14 by you, submitted for review by you on 2007-07-29, ... ?!? > No one has complained about the name until now. Well, the package name is non-critical. What is critical is shipping /usr/include/new and /usr/bin/new. This is very likely to clash with future development out of your control. To put it bluntly: It's a short-sighted design. I am inclined to think you only have been lucky to not see your package clash with other packages, because all other developers in 30 years of *nix history have avoided to implement "new" and thereby left a gap which you now are jumping into. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review