Re: How to revive an abandoned package? (Qtile)
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 03:51:56PM -0500, Damien Calloway wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am an avid Pythonista and I was disappointed to learn that
>
> sudo apt install qtile
>
> No longer works. In my research, it appears that the qtile project relies
> on packagers for each distribution - they do not do the packaging themselves.
>
> I see that the Debian package is abandoned for some time now, and I wanted
> to know if:
>
Not just abandoned - actively removed: it was never part of a stable release
and it looks as if it never made it from unstable to testing. The previous
maintainer now appears to be concentrating on BSD.
> 1) Would I need to use the procedure for submitting a new package, since
> this one has been stale for so long?
>
Probably best: ask on this mailing list for help, maybe.
>
> 2) Would I need to build for all the architectures that Debian supports?
>
Yes: at least for those in stable and testing. For ports to specific
architectures that are unofficial ports/builds - ask the maintainers of those
architectures for help to get the package working.
> 3) Also, wanted to confirm that I would just need to ensure a reproducible
> build with valid metadata for aptitude, then package and submit the
> results?
Packages are submitted as source code: so built from source - binary
uploads aren't acceptable. Again, here might be a good place to
start / to ask for help.
>
>
Hope this helps,
With every good wish, as ever,
Andrew Cater
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, at 15:40, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How would I quote backslashes in a manual page correctly?
> >
> > Currently I have the source:
> >
> > with '"' around each argument, each '"'
> > in the string converted to '\\"' and each '\\' in the string
> > converted to '\\\\'.
> >
> > This renders to:
> >
> > with '"' around each argument, each '"'
> > in the string converted to '\"' and each '\' in the string
> > converted to '\\'.
> >
> > which looks reasonable enough.
> >
> > However lintian doesn't like this and flags the construct with
> > "acute-accent-in-manual-page". Is this a bug in Lintian?
> >
> > Greetings
> > Marc
> >
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