Gimp 1.3 packages, was: New extra packages and yum repository

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 01:31, Michael Schwendt wrote:
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> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:59:14 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
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> > > > - whether or not to explicitly list directories - I guess this makes
> > > > sense for /etc/gimp, but e.g. /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES or
> > > 
> > > Some of the locale directories are not owned by glibc-common.
> > 
> > This is a bug in glibc-common which should not be tried to
> > fix/circumvent in other packages.
> 
> What do you suggest as alternative? Now owning such directories would
> a) leave them behind upon package removal and b) create them with
> wrong permissions in case of a restrictive umask.
> 
> As a similar example, Red Hat's "perl" package should own several
> directories, e.g. vendor install dirs. There's an old bug report about
> it somewhere in bugzilla. But it doesn't get fixed.

If it's not in Bugzilla, put it in there. If it's in Bugzilla, step on
people's toes until they react ;-). Putting this fix in an unrelated
package is not the right thing to do.


> > > You have missed /etc/gimp, /usr/lib/gimp, /usr/lib/gimp/1.3/environ,
> > > and /usr/share/gimp.
> > 
> > I didn't try to give a complete list.
> 
> Sorry, your package should own those directories.

Thanks, I'll fix this.

Nils
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