Hi! On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 03:58:49PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 03:05:48PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > >Just updated also compat version for the packaging and dependency to > >debhelper (>= 7), > > I have now reverted this, as I see no benefit from restricting beyond > v6, and the newer version makes backporting harder. > > The dependency for debhelper 6 was too loose, however. This was > recently fixed in CDBS, and I updated the locally shipped CDBS snippet > to include cleanup for that as well). Ok, so I'm sorry about the unthought change. I must admit to not be really familiar with cdbs, since the preferend "way" to package for new maintainers is to not use such a "complex" system. > >and Bump'ed Standards-Version to the current policy 3.8.1. > > The package is not currently compliant with that version: Source package > lacks a README.source describing unusual packaging routines. > > I will add such file that I have already prepared at > git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/cdbs-skel.git Ok so the Standards-Version is preferend to bump only after all possible changes are checked! > >I: libconfig-inifiles-perl source: build-depends-without-arch-dep devscripts > > [...] > > I deliberately choose to ignore that: Debian Policy does not say that > the package "should" use -Indep, but that when using the -Indep build > targets the dependencies must be met. > > The following note, found in /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/buildcore.mk, shed > some more light on the issue: > > ># This is a required Debian target; however, its specific semantics is > ># in dispute. We are of the opinion that 'build' should invoke > ># build-arch and build-indep. Policy tends to support us here. > ># However, dpkg-buildpackage is currently invokes debian/rules build > ># even when doing an architecture-specific (binary-arch) build. This > ># essentially means Build-Depends-Indep is worthless. For more > ># information, see Policy §5.2, Policy §7.6, and Debian Bug #178809. > ># For now, you may override the dependencies by setting the variable > ># DEB_BUILD_DEPENDENCIES, below. This is not recommended. > >DEB_BUILD_DEPENDENCIES = build-arch build-indep > >build: $(DEB_BUILD_DEPENDENCIES) Thanks to that pointer. > >N: Processing binary package libconfig-inifiles-perl (version 2.49-1) ... > >W: libconfig-inifiles-perl: manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man3/Config::IniFiles.3pm.gz:966 > >N: > >N: This man page contains a section "POD ERRORS" generated by pod2man. This > >N: sections lists errors in the POD syntax found by pod2man during the > >N: generation of the man page. > >N: > >N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain > > Agreed, this would be nice to have fixed. Help appreciated. I cannot promise, but since I'm really interestend to try to help on this package I will try to have a look at it! Kind regards Salvatore
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