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Re: [trinity-devel] tdebase - which patches still required for git?

From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@...>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:21:02 -0500
On 02/23/2012 10:05 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:

> I don't know enough about the code to tell whether they are needed or 
> not. The all still apply cleanly, so I can only presume they are 
> needed. If so, then they should be added to the git tree if they are 
> needed by tdebase. Tim, Serghei, Darrell, who is smart enough to do 
> that? I'll look, but I'm not familiar at all with the source for 
> kicker, dbus, kcontrol or nspluginscan. I'll put up the updated 
> pkgbuilds once I get them cleaned. All the build scripts need work. 
> There is a mismatch of naming between $pkgname $provides and $depends 
> that I'm just going to make a table of the values and start from the 
> beginning and update all the pkgbuilds so the dependency tree is 
> clean. I.e.: Qt3 -> tde-tqtinterface -> tde-arts -> tde-dbus-tqt -> 
> .... tde-tdelibs -> tde-tdebase, and so on. Right now the scripts 
> still have 'kde' in the pkgname and provides. There have been 
> significant changes from a distro build standpoint between the 3.5.13 
> tarballs and the current git tree. Primarily, just the 'kd_whatever' 
> to 'td_whatever'. All necessary, but it will just take reworking the 
> PKGBUILDs to accommodate. 

No they should be addressed at the dev point.  Everthing that needs 
renamed should be accounted for by the devs.

Only packing issues should be dealt with from a packagers view.  we all 
know that there are enought of those :(