desire to package for fedora -- need upstream's help!

[Ryan Lewis <me ryanlewis net>]

Hi,

I use clutter-gtkmm for a personal project of mine. When upgrading to f15, I now experience the bug that I believe to be fixed by the following git commit: 
http://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter-gtkmm/commit/?id=ba5de7c59aa22c279776e4bda9896cd377c5e035

indeed it seems the latest in the fedora repositories is the latest 'stable' release of clutter-gtkmm: 
http://fpaste.org/e4AB/

Using fedora's bugzilla I found the already filed bug, and added my comments:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707957

but no fixed version has been seen!

After discussion with 'rishi' in #c++ on irc.gnome.org I discovered that it is rishi's intention to abandon packaging clutter-gtkmm for fedora, and in order to get the bug fixed properly, I would need to take up the job of packaging this myself. 

I am still in the process of becoming a packager, so in the meantime I did I git pull of the latest sources from the above git repository, 

and I configured with something like sh autogen.sh --includedir=/usr/include and --libdir-/usr/lib64

yet it still chose to install some header files to /usr/local/include 

nevertheless sans the following warnings from the compiler everything works wonderfully for me with the version from git: http://fpaste.org/NiQH/

Anyways, I would try and generate an rpm for the 'fixed' version if you developers would be willing to make a release from what is in git.


thanks,
-rhl