Re: GTK+2.2.1 release spec file

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 05:22, Andrew E. Makeev wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> We used "rpm -tb gtk+<ver>.tar.gz" command to build binary rpms usually.
> Now we can't go that way cuz gtk+.spec file is missed in the latest package.
> 
> Could someone explain what's wrong with it, please?

>From the ChangeLog:

Thu Jan 30 16:30:54 2003  Owen Taylor  <otaylor redhat com>

        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove gtk+.spec.in from
        EXTRA_DIST, and from dist rules. (#102231)

So, look at:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102231

If you follow the link from there to say:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102352

You'll find lot of discussion of the issue. Basically, the situation
is:

 - I can only maintain/test *Red Hat* spec files. Spec files that can
   serve as drop in replacements for GTK+ on Red Hat systems
   contain patches, so I can't put them into the distribution, even 
   if people were happy with having Red Hat specific spec 
   files.

 - I don't to ship a spec file that I'm not maintaining, that
   nobody else is maintaining, and that I can't test.

 - I'm skeptical that a portable spec file is even really possible.
   (But when the GNOME packaging project was maintaining it, I 
   was willing to let them try.)
 
> Also, I guess, it will be great if someone would fix spec file (and, 
> probably, some Makefile) to let it handle gdk-pixbuf.loaders file to be 
> handled and copied to /etc/ directory properly.

Only a spec file issue. The spec files from Red Hat Rawhide
(ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide), for example, show
how to do it correctly.

Regards,
                                        Owen