Hi Ron, thanks for the quick response!
Ron wrote: > I'd really like to move the maintenance of this into git now, > it's no longer trivial to just package new upstream releases > because we have to actually go in and rip stuff out of the orig > tarballs (like GFDL docs). > > If people are getting itchy enough about some of these things now > to actually want to chip in and help, then this is definitely > something we should accelerate to make that easier too. Sounds great, I still would like a quick fix of this bug ASAP, though. Full disclaimer: I work for g10 Code GmbH (the GnuPG company), and we are using mingw32 in our product (GPG4Win), for which we want to update the build specification. > I'd prefer > to do that first than to have to try to sync with an NMU of a new > upstream, which creates a modified orig tarball. That's not the > easiest thing to make a good and reviewable patch from. My plan was not a new upstream version. My plan was to add a debian/patches/ file with a one-line patch (or maybe two, don't remember) for this single bug. > If you're keen to help maintain this though, I'll be happy to put > that repo up somewhere that we can both push into it in future. Again, great, but if this would delay getting a fix into the repository for more than let's say a week, I'd like to do the NMU with a minimal patch immediately, if that is OK with you, in addition to the big plan. > I'm also waiting on news from some folks about what we are going > to do about 64bit support. Do you know anything about this, or > have any advice on which way we should go with it? I am not up to date with this. Windows supports 32 bit binaries just fine, so we stick with that for now. If other people's code is similar to ours, that will remain the prefered way, as we rely on handles being 32 bit. GOing 64 bit on mixed Linux/Windows code may be painful (although I admit I haven't thought much about it). There is an exception: Windows Explorer extensions need to be 64 bit. I am interested in that a bit, having written such an extension. But it has low priority. Thanks, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
