[Notion-devel] Fwd: Issues While Developing A Package For Fedora

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Jeff Backus <jef...@gm...> wrote:

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> On 11/02/2013 12:02 PM, Arnout Engelen wrote:
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>   I wouldn't have objections to you converting them - of course ideally
> that change also makes it 'upstream' to our own git.
>
> Will do! I'll send the patches your way once I have things buttoned down.
>
>   Idem
>
> Forgive me, but I assume Idem = "I don't think it matters"? If so, then
> yes, I agree. I'll put together a patch anyway since it's a simple fix.
> I'll send it your way if you want it, but I don't think it's a big deal.
>

Ah, sorry - with 'idem' i meant 'my previous statement also goes for this'
- in other words, I'd indeed like to apply this change to the notion git.


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>> contrib/statusbar isn't part of the default install?
>>
>
>  Hmm i think it *should* be there.
>
> Good thing I asked. :) It is missing from contrib/install-scripts.sh.
> Maybe this script is old/out of date? Should we replace it with a Makefile?
>

I don't think I use it - in any case added statusbar directory to the
script.


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>
>  Not sure what Fedora's policies are on this front. For Debian we made a
> fairly exhaustive listing of all licenses of all different parts of the
> package, so you could either go for GPLv3 (if compatible) or make use of
> that. Up to you.
>
> I'll take a look at the Debian packages. I'll also tweak my install
> locations to better mimic those paths. Speaking of which, looks like the
> packages haven't been updated since July 3rd, 2012?
>

That's probably accurate


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>
>
>> The ChangeLog is apparently supposed to be autogenerated, however that
>> does not appear to be happening. Currently, the file only contains the
>> statement "(The ChangeLog will be generated by release scripts from svn
>> logs)". Any interest in correcting this or removing it? RELNOTES appears
>> to be ... out of date. Any interest in correcting or removing this one
>> also? As it is, I'm just copying these as is, along with LICENSE and
>> README.
>>
>
>  Yeah we should find a better solution there.
>
> Maybe this?
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog
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> I've attached the first 50 lines of output generated from the main notion
> repo.
>

That looks pretty good.


Kind regards,

Arnout