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Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager



Florian Ernst <florian@uni-hd.de> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> * The patch that changes 0's to NULL's is pointless.  In C++, NULL is
>>   just "#define NULL 0".
>
> Definitely true. I preferred QA's patch over upstream's patch since
> for me 'NULL' just makes it somewhat clearer.
> In technical terms they are the same, unlike in plain C, but speaking
> in human terms (just mine at that time) they differ. But as I don't
> want my preferences to confuse anyone I reverted this change now.

I'm not trying to argue you should prefer one over the other.  I just
think that modifications to the upstream sources should be kept to a
bare minimum.  In this particular case, it obscured the point of the
patch, which was to initialize report.resumeCommand to 0/NULL.

> I've uploaded up-to-date content (lintian / linda clean) to
> http://ernst.uni-hd.de/debian/bbppp
>
> Please tell me if there is anything else you want me to check / fix.

Well, some of your debhelper stuff could use updating.  See
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200303/msg00002.html

Also, the debian/copyright is kinda funky.  This is how I'd do it:
This package was debianized by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org> on
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:28:25 +1100.

It was downloaded from http://bbtools.windsofstorm.net/sources/

Upstream Author: John Kennis <jkennis@chello.nl>

Copyright:

    Copyright (C) 1998-2000  John Kennis
    Translations Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.

 -- Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Mar 2002 02:58:54 +1100


This package version was downloaded from http://bbtools.sourceforge.net/

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License, version 2, can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

 -- Florian Ernst <florian_ernst@gmx.net>  Mon,  1 Mar 2004 18:13:24 +0100

> A small sidenote: as 0.2.3-4 didn't make it into Sarge yet and
> possibly will be delayed because of problems in the s390 buildd (at
> least that's what I guess) an upload of 0.2.4-1 should be delayed as
> well...

In that case, the build on the broken arch will normally be retried in a
few days.  Like today.  ;)

-- 
Don't worry, it's *in*-flammable.

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