On 3/5/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 04:20 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 03:19 -0500, Build System wrote:
> >
> >
> >>xorg-x11-xbitmaps-1.0.1-3
> >>-------------------------
> >>* Thu Mar 02 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 1.0.1-3
> >>- Made package arch specific due to pkgconfig files being placed in lib64
> >> if the noarch packages manage to get built on x86_64/ppc64/s390x.
> >
> >
> > What?
> >
> > Fix the toplevel Makefile.am to install the pkgconfig file to $datadir
> > instead of libdir:
> >
> > -pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
> > +pkgconfigdir = $(datadir)/pkgconfig
> >
> > That's what other noarch packages do.
> >
> >
> > Alternatively, fix your spec to use
> >
> > %configure --libdir=%_datadir
> > ...
> > %_datadir/share/pkgconfig/*.pc
>
> For now, the important thing is that FC5 is in a state that everything
> builds, and is ready for final release. Minor trivia like this is not
> mission critical to the release of the OS.
>
> Feel free to submit a patch to X.Org to do this, so it is fixed in
> the future.
It's always great having to experience the "warm feeling" your responses
emit and having to experience your attempts on pushing people around,
instead of fixing bugs you are responsible for yourself.
Even the time you invested to reply my remark exceeds the time it would
have taken you to fix your spec-file.
Ralf
Dude, the freeze policy is pretty understandable. It's a triage
process at this point. Ubuntu is still one of the fastest moving
distros, in terms of releasing very current code. Debian SID has a
lot of the same sort of stuff, but Debian is glacial in creating new
stable releases. Ubuntu and Fedora both do a great job of pretty
cutting edge stuff out for general users.
The price of pushing out really fresh code is that we must have clear
policies for locking down when a release is due.
That said, I do understand that freezes cause frustration. If you
look on the linux-kernel mailing list, you'll see the ongoing tension
between release management and getting patches in.
Miles