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 In any case the fedora xfig is the most out-of-date.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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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
Moving to 'devel' for F7 consideration.
xfig has been updated to the latest release, closing.