nvu

[Matthias Saou]

Christopher Aillon wrote :

> In file included from ../../../../dist/private/nss/nsspki1.h:57,
>                  from nsspki.h:56,
>                  from asymmkey.c:39:
> ../../../../dist/private/nss/oiddata.h:46: error: array type has 
> incomplete element type
> 
> This was a bug in upstream's source, with the patch in firefox.  See 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284386
> 
> This brings up an interesting point in that some patches I used to have 
> applied and then removed since they were upstreamed in the firefox 
> branch may not have made it to the nvu branch :-(

Yeah... when I had a quick look, I saw that all those files were tagged as
firefox 1.0, vs. 1.0.4 being the latest.

> Some really should go through and make sure that all the fedora patches 
> in the firefox 1.0 series of packages (e.g. 1.0, 1.0.1, ... 1.0.4) have 
> equivalent patches in the nvu package.  They exist for reasons.  This is 
> the porting work that I mentioned earlier and may not be trivial.  The 
> spec you provided is fairly easy to generate, its just not something I 
> would have felt comfortable putting into extras as-is -- it should have 
> the rest of the patches as well as I mentioned in my previous post.

Interesting point indeed. Not being a developer, the work I do consists
only of packaging and integrating (desktop files, init scripts etc.)
software, not fixing it along the way. So for me, if the nvu 1.0 sources
have bugs, I'll report them and include eventual backported fixes, but
definitely won't (because I can't) fix them myself...

For me, providing the same level of quality than upstream (i.e. no more or
less bugs) in an easy to install and well integrated manner should be
sufficient for Fedora Extras. Obviously, this is arguable. But from there,
the software should get wider usage, and proxying problems to upstream,
then including the fixes they come up with, should be enough to keep end
users happy.

In this particular case, I know I won't be using nvu regularly, if at all
actually. But I was a bit disappointed to not having seen it in Extras
yet, and heard back from people I know who unpacked the pre-compiled
binaries on their Fedora systems.

Matthias

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