On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 04:11, Olexiy Avramchenko wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm wondering why there're no spec[.in] files in gtk, pango and glib
> tarballs ? Many libs/apps in Gnome have it (including atk). Should I
> check CVS for them or there's a reason for not including/sharing such
> files ?
A) Spec files that work well on multiple distributions aren't
possible, IMO.
B) I can only test spec files for Red Hat, but I don't
want people using "generic" spec files on Red Hat or
Fedora, because there are important non-generic customizations
in the packages we ship. (Including patches, etc.)
C) So, I can't maintain spec files for GTK+ appropriate for the
tarballs.
When the GNOME packaging project was running, I let them do
whatever they wanted with the GTK+ spec files, but when it
became inactive, I removed the spec files, since untested,
unmaintained spec files in the packages are worse than
no spec files.
Regards,
Owen
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