Re: [Monotone-debian] Bug#527731: monotone-viz: diff for NMU version 1.0.1-1.1

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Stéphane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> writes:
> Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
>> I've prepared an NMU for monotone-viz (versioned as 1.0.1-1.1) and
>> uploaded it to DELAYED/2, according to devref §5.11.1. The patch renames
>> some stub methods to avoid name clashes at (C) link-time with recent
>> versions of lablgtk2.
>
> The current patch looks too much like a quick hack.
>
> Has upstream been notified? I believe the right way would be to fix
> monotone-viz so that it uses lablgtk2's binding instead of having two
> bindings of the same function. If monotone-viz doesn't use any more
> binding that is not provided by lablgtk2, it should build pure bytecode
> executables (without -custom) on bytecode architectures.
>
> Note: this is the first time I hear about monotone-viz...

Good suggestion.  I'll forward the bug upstream and see whether there
exists a newer upstream version that fixes the bug.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.