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Re: [ITP] glib-2.4.2-1


On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:45:32PM -0400, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
>| I want to contribute/maintain glib.
>| Canonical website: http://www.gtk.org/
>
>+1 from me.
>
>| Runtime package setup.hint:
>| ===
>| category: Libs
>| requires: cygwin libiconv2 libintl2
>| sdesc: "low-level core library - runtime libraries and executables"
>| ldesc: "GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis of
>| GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability
>| wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event
>| loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system."
>
>What about making new categories for all the GNOME-dependent stuff,
>similar to X11?  I think that's very helpful.  We've been using the
>following, but maybe you want something slightly different:

Red Hat seems to just put this under System Environment/Libraries.  I
haven't checked Debian.  IMO I don't think we need to invent a new
category here, though.

>GNOME2-apps GNOME2-libs GNOME2-libs-devel GNOME2-doc ...
>
>| Devel package setup.hint:
>| ===
>| category: Libs
>| requires: glib
>| sdesc: "headers and import libraries for glib"
>
>I think "category: Libs Devel" is more appropriate here, if you don't
>make GNOME2-* categories.

Ditto about the Devel.  It does need to be added.

cgf


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