Re: RFS: nedit (updated package)
Hi Paul,
I must have missed your previous email. I'm a long-time nedit user, and
so am happy to see it continue to be supported. Give me a little time
to get a few other things taken care of on my side and I'll review it
and prepare an upload.
Thank you,
Tony
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 16:45 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi
>
> It has been a month since my last mail. Although the files at mentors
> seem to attract reasonable traffic, I have not heard back from anybody.
> Would somebody be interested in commenting on my work (target
> experimental) on packaging a release candidate of nedit (lesstif2 based
> text editor) which I intend to adopt.
>
> The package can still be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nedit
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
> main contrib non-free
> - dget
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nedit/nedit_5.6~cvs20081118-3.dsc
>
> If somebody is willing to sponsor it, but wants the version number plain
> xxx-1 please let me know.
>
> Paul
>
> Paul Gevers wrote:
> >>> Laurent Guignard found a bug in my packaging (failed to build twice in a
> >>> row).
> >> Looks to me like the bug is still there; in binary-arch you:
> >>
> >> mv source/nc source/nedit-nc
> >>
> >> But in debian/rules clean you don't delete source/nedit-nc, which is
> >> problematic because make clean doesn't remove the renamed binary.
> >
> > Fixed
> >
> >> Incidentally, it would be trivially to fix the pedantic warning in lintian:
> >>
> >> P: nedit: copyright-refers-to-symlink-license usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
> >
> > Fixed, including two other pedantic warnings about not using "set -e" in
> > postinst and prerm.
> >
> > The package can again be found on mentors.debian.net:
> > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nedit
> > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
> > main contrib non-free
> > - dget
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nedit/nedit_5.6~cvs20081118-3.dsc
> >
> > If somebody is willing to sponsor it, but wants the version number plain
> > xxx-1 please let me know.
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
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