Re: RFS: tvim
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
> Mauro Lizaur wrote:
> >
> > About lintian, using the --pedantic option I got this:
> > (Note that --pedantic isn't really required, but this got my attention)
>
> Thanks, I've added that to my ~/.devscripts.
>
> > % lintian -Ii --pedantic tvim_0.2-2_source.changes
> > P: tvim source: direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system Makefile.am and 4 more
> > N:
> > N: The Debian diff.gz contains changes to files or creation of additional
> > N: files outside the debian directory. Keeping the changes as separate
> > N: patches under the control of a patch system allows for more fine grained
> > N: control over them. The package will also more easily support possible
> > N: future source package formats if all changes outside the debian
> > N: directory are stored as patches.
> > N:
> > N: Severity: pedantic, Certainty: certain
> > N:
> >
> > % diff tvim-orig/tvim-0.2/Makefile.am tvim/tvim-0.2/Makefile.am
> > 6c6
> > < tvimdocdir = ${prefix}/doc/tvim
> > ---
> >> tvimdocdir = ${prefix}/share/doc/tvim
> > 9d8
> > < COPYING\
> > 12d10
>
> Fixed now (I think). I've added patches for all the needed changes with
> dpatch, and removed all the stuff that wasn't needed (I think I
> accidently used ~/tvim/nm/tvim-0.2 as my working directory yesterday).
> Works fine in my chroot (is running Sid and has only got the needed
> packages for Debian to run plus the build dependencies and normal
> dependencies.) I've also removed UTF-8 from the FreeDesktop file via a
> patch, as it's been deprecated. Should I contact the upstream author and
> ask them to remove it from the upstream source, or just leave it?
>
>
Great, and contacting the upstream to remove the deprecated parts can be
a good idea, yes.
Regards,
Mauro
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