Re: help wanted

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Maarten,

Am Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:15:33PM +0200 schrieb Maarten L. Hekkelman:
> I've updated the debian package for libzeep. There's a change in the SONAME
> so it has to go through new.

Thanks a lot for updating libzeep.

> The package contains the new code for libzeep 6 as well as new
> documentation. I used to use the boost docbook tools but those cause a few
> problems and besides, every kid on the block is moving towards Sphinx and
> ReadTheDocs these days. As an old man I like to pretend I'm hip as well.
> 
> Anyway, using sphinx introduces a lot of lintian warnings. Mostly related to
> the fact that sphinx documentation installs its own copy of jquery and a
> couple of fonts. My guess is that more packages in debian use sphinx so
> before I start to work around this I'd like to know if others have solved
> this 'problem' already. Or should I simply ignore the warnings?

IMHO these warnings ca be ignored.  On the other hand I'd recommend
fixing these:

I: libzeep source: out-of-date-standards-version 4.5.0 (released 2020-01-20) (current is 4.6.2)
  -> I'd recommend to run `routine-update -f` in your git clone

I: libzeep source: quilt-patch-missing-description [debian/patches/boost.patch]
  -> It would be great to have documented patches
 
> Another problem with my package is that the reprotest fails on salsa. The
> actual error it stumbles upon has to do with locales. It seems that
> something is fishy with the installation of locales on the machine where the
> tests run. The test code tries to create a locale namen nl_NL.UTF-8 and then
> checks if the name of the result is the same as the name requested to be
> sure it really got the correct locale. That check should not be required
> since if that locale is not installed, the C++ standard says an exception
> should be thrown but that doesn't happen, sometimes, recently, on Debian. I
> can skip those tests, but I'd like to know why they are failing. Not sure
> who to contact for this.

I need to admit I do not pay too much attention to reprotest tests on
Salsa.  While I perfectly agree that reproducibility is important I have
problems to

  a) read the log and draw sensible conclusions
  b) find out how to fix those issues

If nobody has a better idea I'd recommend to not make this a show
stopper and upload to new.

> A review of the current package of libzeep at salsa would also be very much
> appreciated.

You are welcome
    Andreas. 

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