[arch-dev-public] [signoff] gpm 1.20.3

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Eric Belanger
>  <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>  >
>  >  in testing for both arches.
>  >
>  >  Changes:
>  >
>  >  - minor upstream update
>  >
>  >  - patches cleanup. One of them has been merged upstream, the others didn't
>  > applied anymore. However, they were mostly to prevent gpm from interfering
>  > with some terminal apps like vim and mc. They don't seem to be necessary
>  > anymore as vim and mc works correctly from the tests I did.
>  >
>  >  - closes FS#9949 : The /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 symlink was present on the
>  > system but for unkonw reasons was no longer in the package. For this reason,
>  > forcing is necessary to install gpm 1.20.3.  I don't know how to inform the
>  > users about this ( front page news? or just keep an eye on the forum/ML to
>  > answer user's concern)
>
>  Other than the need to force, this seems to be fine. Maybe a
>  pre_upgrade message that it is ok to force it? /me shrugs
>
>  I'll signoff on i686

I'll signoff for i686 as well. The force did catch me off guard
though, it might be worth a news item. I actually didn't know that
everyone would have to do it until I took a look at this signoff
email.

-Dan