Re: [Freeglut-developer] General cleanup

[Sylvain <be...@be...>]

As a contributor, I'd say we should remove it unless somebody
maintains it.

As a Debian packager, I know that distros prefer that upstream keep
debian/ files out of the official release.  I also contribute to
Fedora but I haven't seen guidelines about upstream .spec though.

As a package maintainer (FreeDink), I do keep the .spec file in the
tarball, but again, I do maintain it :)

So, is somebody maintaining the .spec file (preferably somebody who
contributes to Fedora and know about recent RPM packaging guidelines)?

- Sylvain

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:06:53AM -0700, Evan Felix wrote:
> Should we leave the .spec file for building RPM's in the freeglut
> tree.  I like spec files in tree, but John prefers that the
> distributions maintain them.
> 
> Evan
> 
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:48 AM, John F. Fay <joh...@cy...> wrote:
> > Sorry, there's been so much going on lately that I've lost track of
> > this.  What's the controversy over?
> >
> >         - John F.
> >
> >
> > On 3/20/2012 11:18 PM, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:19, John Tsiombikas<nu...@me...>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Anyway we obviously disagree on what's reasonable in this case, so
> >>> unless someone else casts the deciding vote we'll have to leave things
> >>> the way they are.
> >>>
> >> Its been quiet about this issue for a while, which I suppose can be
> >> taken as disinterest for the mentioned files. Although I don't like
> >> speaking on the Linux stuff as I don't know about it, you seem to make
> >> a confincing case, so you have my vote.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Dee