On 5/31/12 4:30 PM, Lanny Ripple wrote:
> What I mean is I was going to open a bug in sourceforge on the bug tracker 
> for fink and the content of the explanation is prefilled with a note that 
> says, "You can add a bug here but mostly we discuss these things on 
> [email protected]".  If that's incorrect I'm more than happy 
> to re-open a bug report in the sourceforge system but in that case I would 
> ask that the note be taken out of the bug system so folks know where to 
> report things.
> 

This is the place to do it.

> Fink uses gnu's sed and as I understand it follows debian's packaging.  

Not necessarily.  We just use their tools, and we don't necessarily care
how they do their builds.

The same version of sed (4.2.1) works on my ubuntu install so, in
general, it's not an issue with the gnu code.  That leaves the
compilation of sed as specific to the 10.7 install.  Since I notice fink
doesn't just install pre-made packages but does a compile for each, fink
seemed the natural place to report a bug that seems related to the
compilation options.

Sure, which is why I included our sed maintainer in the discussion.

> 
> I did in fact start with the git team since I believe that a system's sed 
> should be the preferred one for a widely used software system and if there 
> are errors the application should address them, work around them, or choose a 
> new method to achieve it's goals.  What I got from the git team was a lot of, 
> "You seem to be asking for a nail but there's no way we would give you the 
> kingdom."  It was quite frustrating but from the conversation I was able to 
> resolve the issue and my development team can continue to make progress.
> 


> In the end my stuff works and that's good enough for my purposes.  I've tried 
> to be a good open-source citizen and report problems to the teams that might 
> have some stake in knowing about or resolving an unexpected bit of behavior.  
> Please let me know if I should go back to the sourceforge bugtracker.
> 
>   Regards,
>   -ljr
> 
> ---
> Lanny Ripple
> [email protected]
> 
> 

What version of our git package is this, anyway?  I don't have a git-am
 at all.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/

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