Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster(a)gmail.com>, spake thus:
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 21:53 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 17:21 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > Someone pointed out that the Fedora Extras folk have been discussing
> > > the xmlstar tool but so far have avoided in because of the
"ambiguous
> > > package name".
> > It looks like from the discussion you referenced that the original
> > packager has dropped out of the running. Shall I email him and see if
> > he minds me picking up the package instead? I don't mind patching it
> > and getting it into FE if it will help us move down this road by the
> > time of FC5t2 or t3.
> I wouldn't say I've "dropped out"; I haven't heard from
upstream and
> have been too busy to deal with it. If you want it then by all means
> take it.
We are really interested in this package, so if you don't have time
to do it we (by which I mean "I," at least as far as this package
goes) would be happy to help, and you have our thanks for bringing
it up to this point.
> Also, it wasn't the package name but the binary name. "xml" was
> designated to be too generic. I did have a patch for it IIRC; let me
> look around.
If you thought you'd have to time *review* the package for Extras that
would probably be a huge help! Thanks Ignacio!
As I mentioned in my original post, I have the package patched and an
RPM built if you'd like to review it.
Cheers