On 14/06/2017 04:10, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
On Jun 10, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Peter Backes <r...@helen.plasma.xg8.de
<mailto:r...@helen.plasma.xg8.de>> wrote:
Hello,
popt ignores /.popt if /etc/popt.d is empty.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051685 (you can find a
patch there).
Applied: thanks for the patch!
When will a new version of popt be released? The most recent version,
1.16, is now over seven years old! The current CVS version seems to be
under active development. Please put out a new version of popt.
Yes popt-1.17 is 7+ years from popt-1.16 release.
Yes, I am still actively maintaining popt, going on nearly 20 years now.
RPM is intimate with
POPT in very complicated ways, unlike most other applications that link
POPT.
Meanwhile, please look at reality:
1) you are the first to post a patch “upstream". The report
rhbz#1051685 report is dated
2014-01-10 16:34:19 EST
(and your patch to rhbz#1051685 was posted 2017-06-09 19:27 EDT)
2) Both the original implementor/requestor of POPT globs as well as
the Fedora maintainer
are members *@rpm5.org <http://rpm5.org> where POPT is maintained.
Neither has chosen to “fix” the issue(s),*
*likely because they have **better things to do these days.*
*I’d suggest that I (as “upstream maintainer”) am not the bottleneck to
a popt-1.17 release.*
*
*
*I can do a popt-1.17 release (as in preparing the tar ball and pushing
to http://rpm5.ort/files/popt*
*within an hour. The due diligence of testing across multiple platforms
and operating systems*
*is beyond my means/energy these days, and takes perhaps 2 weeks,
drudgery setting up*
*VM’s to explicitly test a POPT release.*
*
Hi Jeffrey
my 2c$
the usual way should be to put down a release candidate and
ask for feedback.
I expect any distribution package maintainer will run a
test suite, if available, before releasing any binary package;
if they don't do it is their fault.
I doubt there are a lot a package maintainer that tests more then few
systems. No one and usually also no team can cover all the available system.
Thanks for you package and Best regards
Marco
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