[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:57:22AM +0100, David Van Assche wrote:
>you know what the irony is with all this... all we need to do to get 
>those packs working is type ./configure --with-libabiword
>
>I know because I took the painful step of doing it in from source...
>this problem has now existed for 8 months... u tell me if that is
>acceptable or not. u know the worst part of this entire debacle...
>only the packzge ,aintainer can fix this 2 second fix::: but obviously
>he has more important things to do.

The one-line fix works only on combined compile and working environment.

It takes slightly more to _package_ a library properly.

The "important things" holding back Debian from fixing this at the 
moment is to actually release the 20-something-thousand packages as a 
whole.

For Ubuntu the problem seems (from bugreports tagging the issue as fixed 
and then unfixed again) that the people actually working on "running 
ahead of Debian" for this specific issue are unskilled in packaging 
libraries.


  - Jonas

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