[Mageia-dev] Removing obsolete packages

Fri Dec 2 11:19:38 CET 2011

'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).
+>>
+> 
+> 
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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