Re: Why?: Two hello- packages
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 02:16:39PM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote:
> Having a aspiration to contribute back to the Debian project
> by becoming a developer, adopting an orphaned package or two,
> such as xmailtool, I'm trying to work through building from
> gotten sources, and find myself with some missing bits of
> understanding as to exactly how a *.diff.gz is applied
> to the corresponding *.orig.tar.gz. I've tried various
> combinations of current working directories with
> zcat name.diff.gz | patch, and getting missing file
> errors on files that I can plainly see.
Get the *.dsc file along with those two, and then run dpkg-source -x *.dsc.
Or unpack the tarball, enter the directory, and run zcat ../*.diff.gz |
patch -p1 followed by chmod +x debian/rules, that's about the same, just
more complicated.
> So to my question: why are there two different names
> for the hello package files, when, apparently, there is
> only a version difference:
(Peter answered this)
> In other matters, in reading the docs with xmailtool,
> I find that the authors are not actively maintaining
> the source, and do not find any site mentioning
> anyone else who is, so I've assayed to also become
> the upstream maintainer, and have sent a notice
> of intent to the authors, at the last known email
> address, and have started a page at
> http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool .
> Is this correct method? Or "way" too presumptious,
> having skipped some proper steps?
Are the authors reachable by e-mail?
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