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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><span style="font-size:0.92em;">Hi Alexander -</span></p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Nice! Many thanks! It looks like the package work was dropped on the floor about two months ago. Hopefully a reminder will shake something loose. In the meantime, I can work with 2.7.0. It will do the job I want done.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Bill Gee</p>
<br /><br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><br />On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 9:27:34 AM CST Alexander Semke wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Hi Bill,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > As a general philosophy, I still think that flatpaks, snaps and containers</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > are imperfect solutions for which no problem exists.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > [...]</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I personally so agree with you here. But there are different people with</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> different opinions out there and, for the sake of the promotion of the</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> application, we try to provide a solution for them, too.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > I am - and remain - a committed contrary curmudgeon! :-) I think the real</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > answer is to find a Fedora packager and ask them to create a repository</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> > package for LabPlot 2.8.1.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Agree. I contacted the packager at Fedora today. Looks like some work was done</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> already for this:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/LabPlot/pull-request/1</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896675</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I'll let you know once I have a reply from him.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Best Regards,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Alexander</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
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