Re: RFS: lives
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salsaman@xs4all.nl wrote:
> On Sun, July 26, 2009 20:04, Harry Rickards wrote:
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>> Dear mentors,
>>
>> I am looking for a sponsor for the package "lives" which I updated and
>> removed lintian warnings and errors. This is not a non-maintainer upload
>> as the upstream author Gabriel Finch <salsaman@xs4all.nl> has agreed to
>> list me as an 'uploader' in debian/control. The original maintainer was
>> Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>.
>>
>> I think the original maintainer Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch> is a
>> Debian Developer as although I can't find him using db.debian.org, a
>> random one of his packages I chose ttf-jura has been uploaded to the
>> repository, but I can't find an RFS for it, only an ITP. Gürkan, if you
>> want to upload lives that's great, but if not don't worry.
>>
>> The package requires libweed0, which is available from
>> debian-multimedia.org
>> (http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/l/lives/). However, only
>> binary packages exist. Does this need to be uploaded before lives can (a
>> source package would have to be made)?
>> Also, would a postinst script that downloaded and installed libweed0 be
>> acceptable? If not, is it unacceptable to add an override to suppress
>> lintian warning about symlinks to shared libraries in the main packages?
>>
>
> I don't like this at all. Why are there only binary packages of libweed ?
> Is there a problem with making a source package of libweed ?
>
> Why are you talking about downloading and installing libweed0 ? What if
> debian-multimedia is down, or Marillat pulls the package ?
>
> I really dont think the debain maintainers would like LiVES to be
> dependant on a binary only package. I don't like it either. It stinks.
>
> Please make a source package for it as we discussed.
>
> Cheers,
> Gabriel.
>
>
Okay. There are only binary packages of libweed0 because (if I
understand correctly), Christian Marillat created just binary packages.
As you suggest, I'll create a source package for libweed, so while I'm
doing it, please could everyone ignore the RFS.
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Thanks
Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com>
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