On Thursday 08 May 2008 15:58:51 bardo wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, i wanted to note that there is http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_Project maintained by bardo a TU, which mentions absolutely nothing about upstream. Instead it says "I (bardo) will write/modify the necessary files and notify the corresponding maintainers so they can be added to the packages." Additionally there are links to the bug tracker. I have no idea if bardo submitts them upstream as well but i doubt it.
At the moment I don't. When I announced the project it got a good reaction, so I carried on with it, but after a while creating and providing desktop files through the bug tracker I started receiving the "upstream problem" answer. This has become pretty frequent, so lately I haven't been doing very much on the Arch side. The few developers I tried to contact didn't do anything, so I suppose there's little to no interest from them.
The whole thing has started to become more frustrating than anything, so at the moment I'm not working on it anymore.
IMHO, even though I'm aggresively against patching, I don't consider the .desktop files as patches. They are some extra, *non-code* files, that is fair for the distro to provide (like other configuration files). I don't really blame the app developers that don't include them upstream. Dimitris
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