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Re: RFS: free42



Le vendredi 10 décembre 2010 à 10:53 +0100, Etienne Millon a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:07:30PM -0500, Jean Schurger wrote:
> > Le jeudi 09 décembre 2010 à 08:59 +0100, Etienne Millon a écrit :
> > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 05:39:25PM -0500, Jean Schurger wrote:
> > > > 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 ?
> > > 
> > > "dput -f mentors" it will overwrite the previous package. You can
> > > state that you updated it in this thread and it will probably be fine.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, i've updated my free42 package.
> > 
> > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/free42
> > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
> > main contrib non-free
> > - dget
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/free42/free42_1.4.66-1.dsc
> > 
> > Can you have a look ?
> > 
> > Jean.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Package builds cleanly and is lintian clean. That's good news :)
> 
>   - dpkg_shlibdeps does not complain anymore. It means that your patch
>     works. However, you have included two patches, and one
>     (0_less_libs.diff) does not apply (probably because your output
>     directory was named "2"). The second one is fine, though. You can
>     delete the non-working one and remove it from
>     debian/patches/series.

Oh yes, i did not see the second patch (I'm not sure how it appear,
maybe when i was playing with quilt).

>   - you use a lot of calls to "pwd" in debian/rules. This is not
>     necessary, relative paths work too : `pwd`/x is equivalent to x.
>     Moreover, debhelper can help a lot here (dh $@).

I will clean that

>   - Your manpages should describe how the binary is run. Does it have
>     command-line options ? etc. That will be the first thing your
>     users will try if they don't get how the package work. Other
>     documentation should go… in the documentation :-) .

Well, there is only one option: -skin, I'll put it in the man page.
But the upstream comes with other documentation than two README files
that overlap. I will figure what to do with that. Might be an upstream
issue too.

>   - Probably an upstream issue, but I find it confusing to ship two
>     binaries that differ only in the way they interpret numbers. IMHO
>     that should be a command-line switch or a menu option.

I've looked quickly to the sources, move that 'option' into a switch
will be a very big patch, but i think debian have a solution for that.
May be i can build two packages, and use update-alternatives to handle
that problem. Is that an acceptable solution for you ?

Jean.

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