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Re: Taking over setlocale



Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 10.07.2014, 10:31 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:50:38 +0200
> Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Sven,
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, den 09.07.2014, 23:33 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher:
> > > To solve this problem, I rewrote the setlocale binding with the same API
> > > under the BSD3-clause.
> > 
> > thanks for that. Can you, independently of the hackage process, upload
> > that package to Debian, so that hgettext works again? I guess you’ll
> > want to leave out the Homepage field for now, to not make false
> > pretenses, but if it is API compatible there is nothing wrong with
> > Debian providing a different package, if the original one is unusable.
> 
> Okay. For that reason I'm going to delete the original setlocale
> repository from alioth and upload the new package as a native package.
> Any problems with that?

it’s not a native package just because a DD is upstream; a native
package is something that makes no sense outside of Debian (think
debian-policy).

I recommend to stick to the usual procedure completely, just to reduce
friction.

Greetings,
Joachim

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