Re: Pyrex and Soya fixes for Lenny
* Marc Dequènes (Duck) [Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:15:28 +0200]:
> COin,
> Quoting "Adeodato Simó" <dato@net.com.org.es>:
>> Pyrex was unblocked, and soya wasn't because of (you were told) the
>> horrible diff. However I consider there's no other nicer way to fix
>> this, plus having soya's pyx files be rebuildable is good wrt potential
>> fixes to those files in stable or security, so I've unblocked soya as
>> well.
> Sorry for the delay, i was having horrible security problems at work,
> and was not able to gather any time for any project.
> Thanks a lot for the unblock. I could have put the pyrex generated files
> in a patch, but that would just have changed the box, not the content. I
> don't know pyrex enough to be able to split the pyrex changes and apply
> only the fix to the RC bug. I do believe that the pyrex generated files
> should not be shipped anymore with the source. This could be achieved by
> regenerating the tarball or asking the author not to ship them. Even if
> the diff if horrible, a note in README.source could explain the reason if
> necessary, if you think this is useful.
No, I don't think the tarball should be repacked just for removing the
.pyx files.
> I'm CC-ing the maintainer taking over this package to let him know about
> the issue.
Cheers,
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