Re: Some of your Debian packages might need attention

[Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net>]

Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>   
> <snip>
> >  > === droidbattles:
> >  Hmm, upstream tarball extracts files in ./.  Do we repack that?
> >     
>
> Nope, dpkg-source handles that fine.
>
>   
Ah OK, maybe I'll try this on then.
> <snip>
> >  > === kball:
> >  Upstream tarball naming sucks so watch file is b0rked.
> >  > === kraptor:
> >  Upstream tarball naming sucks so watch file is b0rked.
> >     
>
> Appropriate actions; cluebat upstream (better) or drop watch file.
>
>   
I think upstream on both is rather inactive.
> >  > === lordsawar:
> >  Not built on mips.  0.0.9 is still a dev release for now.
> >     
>
> If upstream uses the odd/even scheme for dev/stable, perhaps the watch
> file needs fixing?
>
>   
It was originally but I think he switched on me because he wanted to 
make sure 0.0.7 got in at one point.  I'll ask him about it.
> >  > === ogre:
> >  Hung up on dependencies and sparc.
> >     
>
> sparc is fixed now, I wonder why the freeimage build-dep is only
> needed on ia64???
>
>   
Aye, no clue.

Thanks for the responses!

Barry