Module submission - bmon

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Friday 08 of June 2007 03:31:02 Kok, Auke wrote:
> sirocco at gmx.fr wrote:
> > module name       : bmon
> > suggested section : net
> > update (y/n)      : n
> > bugfix (y/n)      : y
> > security (y/n)    : n
> >
> > Hello, since I've updated to gcc 4.1, some modules doesn't lin.
> > bmon it one of theses. Here is a patch to make it lin correctly.
> >
> > I've not tested it with gcc 3.4 but it should works. I think it's a
> > typo error (I'm not C/C++ specialist) some "=" are missing, that's
> > what gcc told me, and it was right ;)
>
> that's indeed a big error and BAD typo to make
>
> the question is however: we should not keep silly patches like this - this
> needs to go straight to the maintainer instead, and he should fix &&
> release this immediately
>
> So, please try to do this first. Patch files are technically not allowed
> inside moonbase, so this already needs work for a lunar dev (upload it, add
> a download URL etc...)

Guillaume,
I bypass the need of giving patch to Lunar developers by using sed (sedit) 
inside build script to avoid .patch files. A little bit harder to do but 
allows me to skip blessing from developers running Lunar's ftp and commit 
update fast. I understand Auke's idealistic point of view but find it 
sometimes too strict or impossible to do by average user. Users usually can 
not push on application developer so hard to make him/her release fixed app 
in less than 24h.

Auke has right. The developer of application should be informed about every 
bug encountered. Making patch for Lunar do not release you from informing 
application author because someone else using other distro will get trapped.
The Linux users used to help each other - this helps survive whole community.
Filling a bug report and adding patch to it on application's bugzilla is such 
help to others. However we have to keep Lunar young, fresh and running 
without waiting. This is the reason for adding patches till official app will 
get fixed.
If I make any patch to module I always send it to application developer too.
Thanks to this later releases are get fixed by author so patches to lunar 
becomes obsolete in later module updates.

zbiggy