Re: Package help requested
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
> I have a couple of packages done and available at
> http://lit.compsoc.com/~jimregan/debian/
>
> I was wondering if someone could check them out, and maybe sponsor them?
No time to sponsor, but I did test out a few so far on Alpha...comments
below. I'll check the rest as I get time (probably tonight).
> name: gnut
> desc: Command line gnutella client
> license: GPL
Didn't get to check the package too much, but did check the
software. Seems to have problems when finding an interface on Alpha
(segfaults). I'll look into it and hopefully can supply a patch.
> name: nenscript
> desc: Simple replacement for enscript
> license: public domain
Compiles and runs ok on Alpha. Ran lintian on the debs and source
package. On the source package, got one warning (no big deal, though):
W: nenscript source: ancient-standards-version 2.5.0
The binary package gave this:
W: nenscript: no-section-field
W: nenscript: no-priority-field
> name: z80-asm
> desc: Assembler/Disassembler for the Z80 processor
> license: GPL
This should either be marked specifically for sparc and i386 architectures
only OR you could remove the -malign-functions=0 from the Makefile. It
seemed to compile ok without that on Alpha and ran well from what I can
tell (never had experience with Z80's, unfortunately). lintian yielded
the same standards version warning as above. On the binary package, it
found:
E: z80-asm: copyright-refers-to-old-directory
W: z80-asm: no-section-field
W: z80-asm: no-priority-field
The error obviously has to be corrected. I can supply a patch for all of
this stuff if you'd like...
I'll check the rest later tonight probably (or tomorrow at the
latest). Some of the stuff is harder to test since Alpha doesn't have too
many web browsers that run on our architecture (gotta hate that commercial
entities lie when they say "Supports Linux" when they really mean
"Supports INTEL-BASED Linux").
C
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