From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [212.60.202.196] (helo=mail.kernelconcepts.de) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JGvX4-00058y-2u for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:13:42 +0100 Received: from [212.60.202.194] (helo=[192.168.2.163]) by mail.kernelconcepts.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JGvxK-0007Qx-NG; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:40:50 +0100 Message-ID: <47948C77.9070300@kernelconcepts.de> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:13:43 +0100 From: Florian Boor User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Canadian Doctor Lou References: <15810137585.20080121005051@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <15810137585.20080121005051@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Cc: gpe-list@linuxtogo.org Subject: Re: [Gpe-list] [RFC] Making libmimedir-0.4.2 default in OE X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:13:42 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Paul Sokolovsky schrieb: > Currently, libmimedir-0.3.1 is marked DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "1". That > version of the lib has at least 2 serious bugs: how did that happen? I can't imagine that this would be a good idea. > So, I'd like to propose to remove mentioned DEFAULT_PREFERENCE and > make other steps as needed to make 0.4.2 the default version. I agree, that can't be wrong :-) > 2. There appears to be (at least) two libmimedir's, another one is > http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmimedir/ (at 0.5, versions up to > 0.4 were part of synce project). Debian names package for the lib in > question "libmimedir-gnome", we may want to disambiguate too. > http://packages.qa.debian.org/libm/libmimedir-gnome.html Yes we should follow Debian here. I don't know if the synce one is relevant in any way but it might be better to change the name of the package to be safe. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: +49 271-771091-15 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: +49 271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de 1D78 2D4D 6C53 1CA4 5588 D07B A8E7 940C 25B7 9A76