[as-devel] Re: afterstep 1.8.8 patches
Sasha Vasko/OSCA/Courts/Judicial(sashav@sprintmail.com)
Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:04:44 -0600
> Hi!
>
> I'm the new maintainer for the AfterStep package for Debian GNU/Linux.
> I have some patches that might be useful upstream.
Oh cool, welcome on board.
>
> Are you interested in them?
>
> An incompleted list follows:
>
> 1. hotkey routine modified to prevent strange menu entries like "XtermX
X" where
> the original entry was
>
> Exec "Xterm&X" exec xterm &
What you mean strange menu entries? If menu item has a hotkey defined like
above,
the hot key is supposed to be shown in the right side of the menu entry. Is
that what
you want to prevent ?
>
> 2. toplevel Makefile.in removes files it creates (the unpatched one
leaves
> some files around, making diffs inconsistent)
There is a script included in tools directory : tools/makeasclean
that will get rid of those files. Also tools/makeaspatch will make a patch
for you,
checking several things along the way. Patch will be placed into
/tmp/patch.
You must use these scripts if you wish to produce officially accepted
patches.
On the other side make clean is not supposed to get rid of leftover files.
> 3. Place modules in an arbitrary directory, in Debian's case,
> /usr/lib/afterstep as per FHS
hmm,
/configure --bindir=/usr/lib/afterstep
would be not enough ?
> 4. Others that are primarily Debian specific.
please list them to me - it might be interesting.
>
>
>Jon Nelson
Cheers
Sasha.