Mono-Zeroconf and bundled NDesk.DBus

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

2009/10/23 David Nielsen <gnomeuser at gmail.com>:
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> 2009/10/23 Michel Alexandre Salim <salimma at fedoraproject.org>
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>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> Just noticed that Mono-Zeroconf bundles NDesk.DBus (I'm not the Fedora
>> maintainer for it, and just noticed since due to a glibc bug, we're
>> having to turn off all but the AvahiDBus transport).
>>
>> Since this, unfortunately, is not allowed (without special approval)
>> in our packages, I'm thinking of updating our system NDesk.DBus to
>> incorporate your patches. Do you happen to know who maintains
>> NDesk.DBus right now? The copyright notice is unfortunately totally
>> out of date (2006!)
>>
> Alp Toker is still upstream for ndesk-dbus - I believe there is work ongoing
> on a new release but slowly.
>
Yes; bug filed here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ndesk-dbus/+bug/458687

What disturbs me is that there does not appear to be an attempt by
either Zeroconf and Sugar# to upstream their patches; meanwhile,
Zeroconf ships with an internal copy (bad!) and Sugar# persuaded
Fedora, somehow, to change the public interface of NDesk.DBus without
an API bump.

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Michel Alexandre Salim