[Portland] xdg-utils upstream status (Re: Bug#514882: lintian: please remove the su-to-root check in desktop files)

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Fathi Boudra <fabo at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi

>> This is a sad story and as far as I can tell the general story hasn’t
>> changed drastically (no new releases and files in CVS seem to be
>> changing very slowly).
>
> I disagree.There's no new release, true but fix are commited on a
> regular basis and when time permits.
> We don't have a thousand contributors but we're still alive.

I beg to differ. I opened
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28394 in early June 2010,
with a patch. It's still open, and holding up another bug I found.
Does anyone care?

The whole idea of xdg-utils seems incredibly useful, but the
implementation is full of bugs (eg. spaces in filenames cause
problems) and it's one of the least active projects I've encountered
so far. I've held off using xdg-utils for anything in open source
projects I work on because they're not up to scratch, the mailing
lists are almost dead and you seem unwilling to accept patches.

>> so by that standard I guess one of us should just take up the mantle.
>> More realistically, do you think it would be reasonable to coordinate
>> with the other "large" distributions (Fedora, Gentoo, SuSe) to
>> maintain a cross-distro collection of patches until a more active
>> upstream develops?
>
> We didn't have waited for you to do this.
> Debian, Fedora, Mandriva and Ubuntu people has done some work and
> pushed their patches upstream.
> Most distributions ships a snapshot of CVS (still lack of a release).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fathi
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Damjan Jovanovic