fontconfig 2.2.0 - Ready for review
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Sun Oct 26 18:15:00 GMT 2003
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo Harold,
>
>
>>fontconfig
>>==========
>>libfontconfig1
>>==============
>>libfontconfig-devel
>>===================
>
>
> The binary packages:
>
> + Executables are running.
>
> - No postinstall script
>
> - And in the package included (which is wrong, should be created by a
> postinstall script and only install them if the user has it not in
> place):
> etc/fonts/
> etc/fonts/fonts.conf
> etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
> etc/fonts/local.conf
I haven't done this before. I will have to find an example of it somewhere.
> The source package:
>
> + It configures, builds, ... ok. (The lndir trick is amazing;-)
Heh... it is a trick I have often used when a package won't let me build
out of the source tree. Others will probably chastise me for it, but it
has worked well for me for over two years.
> - The patch includes the autotools temp directory:
> fontconfig-2.2.0/autom4te.cache/
> BTW, this should be patched in the generic build-script to be excluded
> when running diff.
Okay, I can exclude that in the build script and try it again.
By the way, what is the policy when making pre-release chagnes like
this. Do most people bump the package number from -1 to -2 or is that
why I should be including md5sums?
> I vote pro fontconfig.
Thanks,
Harold
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