any news on this? :)
nearly a month passed, and the "problematic" thing has been merged
upstream.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:45:37PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:49:55AM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> > On 20/03/16 03:12, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > >> The issues that you commented on above are fixed in this repository.
> > >>
> > >> 1: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/python-modules/packages/faker.git
> > >
> > > of what I wrote before these still need fixing:
> > >
> > > * debian/control:
> > > + I: fake-factory source: duplicate-long-description python-fake-factory python3-fake-factory
> > > + I: python-fake-factory: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> > > + I: python3-fake-factory: extended-description-is-probably-too-short
> >
> > I have added the Python version to the extended description, which fixes
> > these lintian issues.
>
> Yes, that's probably the most common fix for duplicate-long-description
> :)
>
> > > did you manually fix this in the build manpage by any chance?
> >
> > Yes
>
> I see.
>
> > I have made a pull request to the upstream project, improving the help
> > output in a way that will fix these issues [1]. Its a bit awkward, but
> > is the best step to take next, to wait for upstream to do a release with
> > these changes?
> >
> > A possible alternative would be to include a manpage made with help2man,
> > and not generate it for this version (and switch to generating it later)?
> >
> > 1: https://github.com/joke2k/faker/pull/342
>
> This pull request looks cool to me.
>
> I'd probably just include that patch in the package (either after
> waiting an ACK from upstream or not, your call).
>
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> regards,
> Mattia Rizzolo
>
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