On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 17:13 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Hmmm... No idea - I have always preferred to stick to en_US locales,
> so that's not my field of expertise ;-) I built it successfully on at
> least one Sid system and one Sid chorot (pbuilder). I'd like to see
> anybody else give their opinion.
>
I agree completely. Anyone else on the list who would like to test the
build process, on sid, of the libcvs-perl package? We need to perform
some.
> > i fixed all the lintian warnings and configured MAN3PODS in order to
> > build only the MAN page of the main public Cvs interface command, not
> > all the rest.
>
> Good, it now works fine!
>
Fine.
> > I've rebuild the updated package (Debian version didn't change in order
> > to be always at -1 for first Debian upload) and uploaded it once again
> > to MDN -- Feel free to check it out for a second test.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > If the package compiles successfully on other sid machines, IMHO it is
> > ready for upload.
>
> There are still bits of QA to do - For example, you are including a
> README.Debian which reads:
>
> Cvs Perl interface for Debian
> -----------------------------
>
> A full documentation of the module is available in MAN and POD format:
> man Cvs or perldoc Cvs.
>
> Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:54:59 +0200, Ivo Marino <eim@mentors.debian.net>.
>
> You are also including the module's README itself in the
> /usr/share/doc/libcvs-perl directory - That's not bad, but it is
> useless: Debian ships already built software. Why do you include a
> file that explains how to build this software? (Note to self: Many of
> my modules have this same defect. Fix it :) )
>
> Well, all that is obvious information. Why do you need it in a
> README.Debian? Leave that file alone for more important matters ;-)
>
> You have a libcvs-perl.substvars file which reads:
>
> perl:Depends=perl (>= 5.6.0-16)
>
> But you are depening on perl >= 5.8.0-7 in debian-control - And
> anyway, the oldest version of Perl in the _stable_ release is
> 5.8.4 (in Sid, 5.8.7)...
>
> You are not closing an ITP bug with this new upload - Why?
>
I'll fix the above shown problems ASAP.
> Other than that... Well, it looks fine. Otavio's building problems
> should be clarified, yes, but other than that, the module is ready.
>
In the meantime it would be useful if someone else could try to build
the libcvs-perl on a sid machine -- We need some more feedback in order
to know if it builds fine.
Thanks for interest.
Regards,
I.
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