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[PATCH] gnu: Add icewm

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Message #26 received at 61010 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Tai <atai <at> atai.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 61010 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#61010] [PATCH] gnu: Add icewm
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:42:01 -0800

OK I will make another patch tom re-generate the .gmo files in the
build process, even if that is probably "redundant" but will just run
one more step.   First I need to figure out how these .gmo files are
generated as I don't deal with gettext much.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:02 PM Andy Tai <atai <at> atai.org> wrote:
>
> I just untar'd the
>
>  icewm-3.3.0.tar.lz
> (from https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/download/3.3.0/icewm-3.3.0.tar.lz)
>
> file (not tar.gz file, my bad for bad description before), in a clean
> directory, and
> the .gmo files are there
> /share/software/icewm/icewm-3.3.0$ !find
> find . -name *.gmo
> ./po/zh_CN.gmo
> ./po/pt_BR.gmo
> ./po/sk.gmo
> ./po/en.gmo
> ...
>
> As we are getting the release tarball as the source, the git repo is
> immaterial as far as this icewm version is concerned.
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 2:10 AM Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 23:37, Andy Tai <atai <at> atai.org> wrote:
> >
> > > This I did not address in the revision because the second .tar.gz is
> > > available on the net, satisfying GPL's source requirement... but will
> > > revise if Guix policy demands otherwise
> >
> > I do not understand what you mean.  My point is that these .gmo files
> > are generated by the author of the release and they are _not_ included in
> > the upstream source code – the Git repository.
> >
> > For most of the cases, the Guix project tries hard to package only from
> > the source code, i.e., build as much as possible from scratch.
> >
> > Hence, the question: do we re-generate these files?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > simon
> >
> > PS: Indeed, sorry for the typo in my previous message.  I wrote:
> >
> >     Other said, these files are in the archive tar.gz [2].
> >
> > when *not* is missing.  I wanted to say:
> >
> >     Other said, these files are *NOT* in the archive tar.gz [2].
>
>
>
> --
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> Year 2023 民國112年
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Year 2023 民國112年
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