Re: Metacity and GNOME Flashback
Hi Everyone,
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10 November 2014 05:22, Michael DePaulo
<mikedep333(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to package all of GNOME Flashback and I was wondering if
> you had any intention of doing so. if not, I'm curious if there is a
> use case for Metacity outside of a GNOME Flashback session and if you
> (or anyone else) have any advice.
Not really; mclazy auto-built metacity as part of the GNOME moduleset
for a few releases. I can remove metacity from the modules.xml file if
you want to deal with this as part of the flashback thing.
Richard.
Understood.
Once I make more progress with packaging, I'll probably ask you to do that.
> The GNOME Flashback components:
> gnome-applets (dead package in fedora)
> gnome-flashback (not in fedora)
> gnome-panel (dead package in fedora)
> metacity
> notification-daemon (still in fedora, but last updated 2012-09-04)
Are there any instructions for (newbie) packagers on reviving dead packages?
I found instructions for orphaned packages, but not dead packages:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers
-Mike