[Mageia-dev] Removing obsolete packages

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Michel Catudal at 02/12/11 02:32 did gyre and gimble:
> Le 30/11/2011 02:21, andre999 a écrit :
>> Michel Catudal a écrit :
>>>
>>> How about putting back previously unsupported packages? The only text
>>> editor that I use is joe and someone has decided to remove it from
>>> Mageia.
>>> I took the Redhat Enterprise version and ported it to mageia. For a
>>> while the maintainers of joe has incorporated a bug that would make
>>> it such that it would core dump if you tried to open more than one
>>> file at a time.
>>> I am willing to maintain this package.
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>
>> No problem, since you are willing to maintain it, as long as it makes
>> it past QA.
>> (Which means the core dump problem would have to be solved, if not
>> already.)
>>
> 
> The fix was made by Redhat,
> 
> It was a one char bug

One char fix, with a six char polish? :p

> 
>                                 b->oldcur = pdup(b->bof, USTR "main");
>                                 pline(b->oldcur, get_file_pos(b->name));
> -                               p_goto_bol(bw->cursor);
> +                               p_goto_bol(b->oldcur);
>                                 line = b->oldcur->line - (maint->h - 1)
> / 2;
> 
> 
> 
>> It would be  an update to cauldron, and a backport for Mageia 1
>> (unless it was in Mandriva 2010.1/2, in which case it would be an
>> update).
>>
> 
> 


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