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Re: RFS: free42



Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 22:21 +0100, Etienne Millon a écrit :
> (no need to CC me, I am subscribed to the mailing-list)
> 
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:04:09PM -0500, Jean Schurger wrote:
> > Yes, i don't know what to do with that. I should not use the
> > 'unodcumented' because i've understood that it is/will be deprecated.
> > 
> > And i have no "manual" for that on the software sources.
> > Is there a template of manual that i can use ?
> 
> You can for example learn from an existing manpage (they are text
> source files). There are plenty of them in /usr/share/man :-)
> 
> You can also use a "compiler" that will produce a manpage from a
> (simpler) description. I've used pandoc (packaged in Debian) which
> does the job.
> 
> Once it's done you should send the manpages to upstream, too.
> 
> > >   - dpkg-shlibdeps seems to complain about useless dependencies on
> > > 
> > >       libfontconfig.so.1 
> > >       libatk-1.0.so.0 
> > >       librt.so.1 
> > >       libgio-2.0.so.0 
> > >       libcairo.so.2 
> > >       libpango-1.0.so.0 
> > >       libgmodule-2.0.so.0 
> > >       libgthread-2.0.so.0 
> > >       libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 
> > >       libfreetype.so.6 
> > >       libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 
> > > 
> > >     Those come from your Makefile which calls "pkg-config --libs
> > >     gtk+-2.0". I am not sure about the best solution for this one.
> > >     It's only a warning, though.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, i was knowing that too, the Makefile is part of the sources,
> > should i patch it to prevent thoses links ? Free42 is linked
> > "indirectly" to those libraries as they are gtk+ dependencies, and
> > free42 use gtk+.
> 
> If there's actually a way to build in a cleaner way (and remove
> explicit dependencies), you should patch the upstream sources. As
> you're using the new "3.0 (quilt)" format, it means recording a patch
> and putting it in debian/patches. You can do that by hand (tedious),
> or directly with quilt. If you are using a "higher level" system
> (git-buildpackage, …), there should be a direct way to do that, too.
> Upstream will probably be happy to merge this patch in their next
> version, too (once again, assuming that it's not a false warning).
> 

Thanks, i'll fix thoses two issues.

What's the 'good' way to ask to review an update of a package like this
one ? I should continue to dput it as replacement, and ask in that
thread ?

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Jean Schurger
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