Re: [Help-smalltalk] [PATCH]Renaming autconf package name for gnu-smalltalk

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/24/2010 07:13 PM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
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> Am 24.06.2010 18:44, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> > On 06/24/2010 06:43 PM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
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> > > Hallo,
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> > > on my package I have found an older patch, which I have
> > > introduced during the review process of the Fedora package to
> > > rename the autconf package name of gnu-smalltalk from smalltalk
> > > to gnu-smalltalk.
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> > Although most distros will carry a patch like this one,
> > unfortunately it is not suitable for integration upstream because
> > it would change the tarball file name.
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> That may be prefer by me

I suspected that :) but it would also mean complicating lives of 
potentially many users that rely on the layout of ftp://ftp.gnu.org/

In other words, I don't disagree with the change, it's just that I 
cannot do it.

Paolo