Hi,
> What about sending the patch to the right place? ie:
> bugs.freedesktop.org
It doesn't let me (without registering).
> > Whoa, copy and paste + typing "gzip" or ".gz" a few times! Coooool!
> > I guess it would be easier for them to add it themselves than applying
> > this patch...
>
> Adding what to what ? You are blaming different GNOME people to not fix
> freedesktop bugs? That would be like blaming a Debian maintainer to not
> fix fedora packages...
No, for not pursuing an issue with their software.
Like not reporting the freedesktop problem they *depend* on (it is not a
freedesktop bug alone!) at freedesktop.
> They made the comments quite clear. The correct way to work is to define
> a mimetype for the format, ie: change the freedesktop shared-mime-info
> file. Then open a bug on evince to list this mimetype. Maybe you don't
> get that freedesktop != GNOME?
Maybe you should note that after adding the mimetype, evince still will
need support for this type.
> Note that I quite agree with them, compressing the .pdf files is Debian
> specific, not really useful and probably a dh_compress bug which should
> ignore them.
Not useful?
-rw-r--r-- 1 erich erich 1659500 2005-10-01 20:32 beameruserguide.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 erich erich 1049860 2005-10-01 20:32
beameruserguide.pdf.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 erich erich 1060392 2005-10-01 20:32
beameruserguide.pdf.gz
34% space savings is not useful?
best regards,
Erich Schubert
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