Re: this all this xxx-jp nonsense (was: Re: ITP: grep-ja)
From: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: this all this xxx-jp nonsense (was: Re: ITP: grep-ja)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:39:03 +0200
Message-ID: <[🔎] 19990830143903.A17794@cs.leidenuniv.nl>
wakkerma> Previously Ryuichi Arafune wrote:
wakkerma> > I intend to package (exactly, intend to move from Debian-JP) grep-ja.
wakkerma> > This provides the GNU grep applied a multi-byte extension patch.
wakkerma>
wakkerma> I seriously object to this. I do not think that forking all packages in
wakkerma> Debian and creating -jp-package is the right way to go. What should be
wakkerma> done is submit patches to the maintainers, preferably both Debian and
wakkerma> upstream. What I was hoping to see with the integration of Debian-JP
wakkerma> is that all the multibyte patches would be *integrated* with Debian,
wakkerma> not a senseless forking of lots of packages.
If the target of the patch is the newest upstream, I fully agree. (I
have submitted BTS of sed and gawk to apply the multibyte patch)
However, In this case, the multi-byte patch should be applied to an
old one (grep 2.0 (not 2.3)). And there is no patch for newest grep,
in my knowledge.
What should I do in this circumstance?
wakkerma> I'm even more annoyed that you didn't even contact the maintainer of
wakkerma> the grep package (me) before posting this.
I'm very sorry that I have not contacted you.
By the way, the patch is located in
ftp://ftp.hipecs.hokudai.ac.jp/pub/GNU/jp/grep-2.0-mb1.04.diff.gz
I try to apply it to grep-2.3, but I cannot it.
If you have a time, please try.
Regards.
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Research Institute of Electrical Communication
Tohoku University
Dr. Ryuichi Arafune
arafune@ushioda.riec.tohoku.ac.jp
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