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

[Chris Kühl <blixtra gmail com>]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Ryan Lewis <me ryanlewis net> wrote:
> 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
>

Sorry, I wasn't aware of the fedora bug.

> 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.
>

Well, I just tried to make a release now but it doesn't seem to want
to do make distcheck cleany. Once I get this cleared up I'll make a
release. Hopefully in the next couple days.

Cheers,
Chris