Re: Scythe in Debian Med Git
Hi Kevin,
thanks for your quick reply.
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 05:26:33PM +1000, Kevin Murray wrote:
> >
> > As a temporary solution until upstream might be convinced to do proper
> > releases this is OK. It also serves for others as documentation how we
> > obtained the tarball.
>
> OK, I'll leave it as is until Vince gets back to me about tagging a released
> version.
That's fine.
> > To the package itself: I did a couple of minor changes and commited
> > these. It would have been more work to describe what you should do than
> > doing it quickly myself. Please check the log thoroughly. There is one
> > remaining issue: You are creating the manpage at build time but the
> > result is quite poor regarding line spacing etc. It also adds a ruby
> > build-dependency. Could you please preprocess the manpage and commit it
> > right to the debian/ dir after checking that the syntax is OK?
>
> OK, I have made a new and improved d/scythe.1 and removed the ronn-based system
> (including from build-depends, and d/rules).
I'll check this out and will probably upload soon.
> Is it worth doing something
> similar with the README.html which we now generate, to avoid a build-dep on
> python-markdown?
The problem was not only the extra build dependency but also the poor result
we get from it. So I think it is OK as it is now.
Thanks again for your work on this
Andreas.
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