Bug 211796

Summary:	update to newer release of xfig
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Patrice Dumas <pertusus>
Component:	xfig	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
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Fixed In Version:	3.2.5	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Patrice Dumas 2006-10-22 23:33:01 UTC

Description of problem:

The xfig version shipped in fedora is quite old. The development
of xfig is now on the 'alpha' release which don't seem to be
alpha except in the name. They are many bugfixes in the
so-called 'alpha' version, backporting all of them seems
unusefull to me, and there are also some new features. Given
the scope of fedora I can't see why those versions shouldn't be
used. debian uses the 'alpha' releases, even for debian stable, 
like mandriva. I don't know if I found latest suse srpms but 
the one I found used backporting instead of the alpha. 
In any case the fedora xfig is the most out-of-date.

More fundamentaly I am not convinced that xfig is interesting
enough for fedora core developpers, and maybe this would be a 
good candidate for extras? (transfig is a build dependency
for some packages in core, so cannot easily go in extras).

If you agree with updating to the 'alpha' release I allready
have investigated which patch have been integrated, which
ones need to be rebased and I also have collected interesting 
patches and ideas from other distros, i could easily provide
this info.

I also have an updated transfig, so I could also provide 
updated patches and spec.

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Comment 1 Than Ngo 2006-10-30 11:24:23 UTC

i will ask the author whether the alpha version is stable enough too be 
included in FC7. It would be geat if you could attach updated patches and spec 
in the case if we add alpha version. Thanks

Comment 2 Will Woods 2007-03-24 20:02:23 UTC

Moving to 'devel' for F7 consideration.

Comment 3 Patrice Dumas 2007-07-31 16:10:00 UTC

xfig has been updated to the latest release, closing.