Re: questions regarding libmimelib1 as seperate source package
On 25/04/2009 Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-04-25 09:26 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > In <20090425001917.GB6090@resivo.wgnet.de>, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> >>Ok, I see your point. I'll change the package to be non-native again.
> >>But how about all the links to upstream places that lintian expects?
> >>like the Homepage field in debian/control, the watch file etc ...
> >
> > *shrug*
> >
> > They could point to specific part of the Debian infrastructure used for
> > maintaining the project. Perhaps a project "etc." on
> > http://alioth.debian.org/?
>
> I think that's only useful if the library itself is maintained there.
I don't see a reason to maintain mimelib1 on alioth yet. Thus I set the
Homepage field to http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/mimelib/
> > I'm not sure what the policy is, but lintian overrides might also be
> > appropriate.
>
> There is no need for that, adding a watch file containing only a comment
> about the situation is enough.
Great, that's what I did now. Thanks for the advice.
greetings,
jonas
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