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

[wwp]

Hello all,


On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:26:35 +0200 Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

About the missing quotes, I have here a patch that tends to cover the
whole subject across the scripts. It's against 1.0.2 and I discovered
the CVS too late. The good point for my patch is that it's much more
complete that quoting done in CVS post-1.0.2. The extra quoting I've
done fixes few issues, but also normalize the code and makes it more
secure (when code extends, sometimes misquoting appears to become a
problem).

Maybe I should update the patch to CVS and submit it?

BTW, what's the way to checkout from CVS, I couldn't find the
credentials for an anonymous CVSROOT anywhere?


Regards,

-- 
Tristan Chabredier
Four J's Development Tools
tc at 4js.com
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