Bug 1022154

Summary: The dwm-user package does not specify patch as its dependency
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile>
Component: dwmAssignee: Petr Šabata <psabata>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: psabata
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Description Jaromir Hradilek 2013-10-22 15:51:57 UTC
Description of problem:
The dwm-start script uses the patch utility to apply all patches located in the $HOME/.dwm/patches/ directory to the dwm sources before rebuilding the dwm binary, but neither the dwm-user package nor any of its few dependencies require the patch utility to be installed in the system. This may be a problem, because not all Fedora spins install this utility by default (Fedora 19 Xfce Spin does not). As a consequence, an attempt to build the dwm binary on such a system fails with an error.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dwm-user-6.0-7.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a patch to the $HOME/.dwm/patchees/ directory and make sure that the dwm binary can be built with it.
2. Remove the patch package.
3. Delete the $HOME/.dwm/dwm binary.
4. Start a new dwm-user session.

Actual results:
Unless there is an older build of the dwm binary in the $HOME/.dwm/ directory, any attempt to start the dwm-user session silently fails.

Expected results:
The dwm-user package should always install the patch utility as a dependency to prevent this error.

Additional info:
None.

Comment 1 Petr Šabata 2013-10-23 04:10:55 UTC
True.  Thanks for the report.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2013-10-23 05:17:13 UTC
dwm-6.0-8.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dwm-6.0-8.fc20

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-10-23 05:17:54 UTC
dwm-6.0-8.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dwm-6.0-8.fc19

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-11-02 04:59:41 UTC
dwm-6.0-8.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-11-10 08:12:32 UTC
dwm-6.0-8.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.