On 18 November 2013 17:44, mathog <mathog@...1176...> wrote:
That's my library, and I have no idea how to "push it" in this manner.
There's a nice way and there's a mean way ;-)
The "nice" way is to follow the long, convoluted packaging request process for each distro and wait for months or years because no applications depend on it so it isn't considered urgent.
The other option is to simply drop the library from Inkscape and provide a link in the release notes to the new dependency. The Inkscape package maintainers will effectively be forced into packaging the library by the multitude of users who are desperate to get the new version of Inkscape! I suspect that this generates bad karma, however..!
At this point in libUEMF's development I am not entirely sure that having to use whatever version a distro might happen to have is a great idea, since I am still finding that a line here or there needs to be tweaked to to solve some issue or the other in Inkscape, at a rate of about once every couple of months.
OK, that makes sense. Thanks. Once it's a bit more stable, we can always place a version requirement in the build files to ensure that the distro is up to date. Can I request, though, that you update the README in our copy of libuemf, so as to specify the version/source revision that we currently use? It makes it much easier to deal with merging upstream changes in future.
Thanks,
AV