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Re: xwatch package done



In article <[🔎] 199811191450.JAA25096@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>, Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:
> Are developers _required_ to run unstable?  I know it makes a whole
> lot of sense for debugging purposes, otherwise it never get stable.
> But until I upgrade my PC at home that will be difficult to do.

Good question and we don't really have a clear answer yet.
I'll file it away for resolving as part of Developer's Reference.

>> You depend on XForms.  Two points: xforms 0.88 is out.

> It's incompatible with 0.88.  The package need a new upstream
> maintainer, preferably one that would port it to GTK (or other open
> source toolkit).
>> Also, you cannot put this package in 'main' since it depends on
>> XForms, which is non-free.  The best you can hope for is contrib.

> Oups.  Forgot to do that.  It is enough to edit the Section line in
> the control file to `Section: contrib/utils' ?

Yup.

> To upload it, all I have to do is move all files to the proper
> directory on master?  Or do I have to learn a new tool.

You can upload them manually or use dupload if you feel like it.
See dupload(1).

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>




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