[argyllcms] Re: Argyll is now in Fedora

  • From: Leonard Evens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:04:55 -0600

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 10:09 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le vendredi 08 février 2008 à 20:33 -0600, Leonard Evens a écrit :
> 
> > I hope what you provided will also work with Fedora 7,
> > and that you include it as an rpm package for that version.
> 
> Right now a Fedora 7 package is not planned. Pre-Fedora 8 releases have
> a different way of dealing with device permissions, and I have little
> wish to invest in a significantly different package for a release that
> will be EOL when Fedora 9 is out in two months. You can probably take
> the Fedora 8 or 9 srpms and rebuild them on Fedora 7. It won't take care
> of device permissions but if you're using the direct download that means
> you've handled this manually already. OTOH if I push anything Fedora 7
> way it will have to setup everything, device bits included.
> 
> I tend to believe that making packagers work on old releases so other
> people do not have to adapt to new ones is a vicious circle, that puts
> the burden on people going forward instead of inciting people to fix
> their broken stuff. So my personal release policy is never to push new
> packages to anything else than Fedora Devel unless they can be pretty
> much rebuilt as-is on older releases.
> 
> However Fedora is a community project, so if there's a volunteer to join
> as Argyll package co-maintainer, and take care of Fedora 7 or EPEL
> releases, I won't stand in his way.

Thanks for the explanation.  I guess I will just have to bite the bullet
and set up Fedora Core 8 on another computer so I can figure out why
Maple won't work.  Yet another task to add to my schedule.  I am
beginning to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of projects I've set
for myself.  At age 74,  the time ahead seems very finite. So it would
be nice if someone else would do some things for me, but I can
understand why you wouldn't want to.

> 
> Regards,
> 


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