I stumbled upon an ancient (year 1995) X11 app called xarclock that runs anti-clockwise. You might figure that its purpose was to mimic the Medieval Hebrew clock in Prague, but the author seems to have just wanted to gag life in the Southern hemisphere, where sundials (he claims) run in reverse. I added Hebrew support and published it to github along with a debian package and a stand-alone executable.
Debian already has the original version (patched) in its repositories. Is there a debian person (preferably a developer) on the list who can guide me how to suggest my modifications be added to the debian package?
https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/xarclock-hebrew https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/xarclock-hebrew/releases/tag/v1.0
A modern QT version of this would be fun, but I don't know QT programming.
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Not a Debian dev (tried, but failed to figure out how to break in there), but I am a Fedora packager, if you'd like me to take a look at getting it into that distro, too.
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 1:21 AM Boruch Baum boruch_baum@gmx.com wrote:
I stumbled upon an ancient (year 1995) X11 app called xarclock that runs anti-clockwise. You might figure that its purpose was to mimic the Medieval Hebrew clock in Prague, but the author seems to have just wanted to gag life in the Southern hemisphere, where sundials (he claims) run in reverse. I added Hebrew support and published it to github along with a debian package and a stand-alone executable.
Debian already has the original version (patched) in its repositories. Is there a debian person (preferably a developer) on the list who can guide me how to suggest my modifications be added to the debian package?
https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/xarclock-hebrew https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/xarclock-hebrew/releases/tag/v1.0
A modern QT version of this would be fun, but I don't know QT programming.
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On Thursday, 11 April 2024 8:20:50 IDT Boruch Baum wrote:
I stumbled upon an ancient (year 1995) X11 app called xarclock that runs anti-clockwise. You might figure that its purpose was to mimic the Medieval Hebrew clock in Prague, but the author seems to have just wanted to gag life in the Southern hemisphere, where sundials (he claims) run in reverse. I added Hebrew support and published it to github along with a debian package and a stand-alone executable.
Debian already has the original version (patched) in its repositories. Is there a debian person (preferably a developer) on the list who can guide me how to suggest my modifications be added to the debian package?
I'm not a debian developer, however I sent some patches in the past for the Debian project.
Open a bug on the BTS describing the issue (you can use reportbug).
Check in salsa.debian.org if the project is there, if it is , you need to create an account , create a patch using the quilt system and do an MR inside of that patch. mention in the MR that you are fixing bug X If it's not on salsa, get the source that exist in debian , and create quilt pactch and send it to the mailing list that is related to that project.
https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt%5B1]
it might take some time that the maintainer would reply , so asking around over IRC iat OFTC might help to find how to reach to the person correctly.
From experience it's better to push changes first to the upstream and only then update Debian with the updated version , that way other distributions would enjoy these features too.
p.s. it might be a problem to send patches to the Debian project post Debian Project Leader actions in recent months.
https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/xarclock-hebrew https://github.com/Boruch-Baum/xarclock-hebrew/releases/tag/v1.0
A modern QT version of this would be fun, but I don't know QT programming.
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-------- [1] https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt
Thanks, Boris. Your advice seems like the way to go. The link to UsingQuilt[1] seems like it will be particularly helpful.
On 2024-04-12 12:25, Boris Shtrasman wrote:
I'm not a debian developer, however I sent some patches in the past for the Debian project. Open a bug on the BTS describing the issue (you can use reportbug). Check in salsa.debian.org if the project is there, if it is , you need to create an account , create a patch using the quilt system and do an MR inside of that patch. mention in the MR that you are fixing bug X
If it's not on salsa, get the source that exist in debian , and create quilt pactch and send it to the mailing list that is related to that project.
[1]https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuilt
it might take some time that the maintainer would reply , so asking around over IRC iat OFTC might help to find how to reach to the person correctly.
From experience it's better to push changes first to the upstream and only then update Debian with the updated version , that way other distributions would enjoy these features too. p.s. it might be a problem to send patches to the Debian project post Debian Project Leader actions in recent months.
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Hi,
Nice to see this,
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 12:25:07PM +0300, Boris Shtrasman wrote:
From experience it's better to push changes first to the upstream and only then update Debian with the updated version , that way other distributions would enjoy these features too.
Only in this case there does not seem to be any real upstream.
"Upstream" is a code drop from the 1990-s (1995 for xarclock): http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/clocks/
The Debian package has last had a maintainer upload in 2008.
If anybody wants to take over that package (as upstream), it could be nice, I guess.
If anybody needs sponsoring that package into Debian, ping me.
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