[fedora-india] : packaging help

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 12/22/2009 10:06 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> hey,
> 
> Can someone please tell how to help the maintainer update this
> package[1]? I don't need much, just a few points on how to proceed. Its
> almost 3 weeks since I requested the update and it'll be good if I could
> help speed up the process.
> 
> regards,
> Ankur
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543433
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543433#c1

Use fedora-cvs to checkout the spec file that is available, update and
build it locally and check whether the soname has been bumped up.
rpmdev-diff is one way to compare. Update with a patch to the spec file
in bugzilla.

Rahul