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Re: RFS: magpie -- Debian reference librarian



On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:09:29AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've made a new version of magpie, a orphaned package.
> It closes most of the open bugs. Now I'm searching for a sponsor for it.
> 
> I'm in the new maintainer process. This would be my first official package.
> 
> You can find the package under http://www.lichtenheld.de/debian/
> 

Hi,

I've taken a look at this.

ssta@bitech88:~/magpie/www.lichtenheld.de/debian$ lintian
magpie_0.5-8_i386.changes
W: magpie source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/crontab.ex
W: magpie source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/diversions.ex
W: magpie source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/inetd.conf.ex
W: magpie source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/info.ex
W: magpie source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/init.d.ex
W: magpie source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/manpage.1.ex
W: magpie source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/menu.ex
W: magpie source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/watch.ex
W: magpie source: newer-standards-version 3.5.10


Don't worry too much about the last line there (it's just lintian being slow
to catch up :).  The other warnings need to be dealt with though.  In
general, read the *.ex files, decide if you need them and if you don;t
delete them.  If you do then rename them to remove the .ex extensio.

Is there any particular reason the package build-depends on "c-compiler"?
gcc provides c-compiler and build-essential depends on gcc, so a c compiler
should always be installed on any system looking to build the package.

The manpage isn't quite like a traditional Unix manpage, but that's not a
huge issue really...just something you might want to look into at some point.

If you fix the *.ex warnings and either remove the c-compiler dependency or
provide a rationale for it, I'll sponsor the upload for you.

Cheers,

Stephen

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