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Re: [trinity-devel] Building packages from git: several questions

From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@...>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:25:54 -0600
Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> Darrell Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> libart-lgpl no longer is maintained upstream and needs several
>>> patches to avoid crashing some apps. The version of libarts provided
>>> by the Trinity Project includes those patches and is intended to be a
>>> replacement for any version of libarts currently installed by any
>>> distro. Build this patched version of libart and replace the stock
>>> libart installed with the distro.
>>
>> Do you have a reference about it no longer being maintained?  

> One example of many: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155472#c4

That's clear enough, thanks.

> And here is a combination of all of the patches:
> http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/libart-lgpl/diff/?id=150562b89b645c402f1bb837a09f8b84bf6e49ec

Did you create the changes?  If not, where did you find them?  Looking 
at the original source, the code looks very difficult to maintain.  It 
really makes you appreciate C++.

   -- Bruce