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Re: dvipng



On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:24:03PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
>Hi Kapil, Franz,
>
>
>Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
>> Bug status:
>> There are small patches for #395681, #346084, #327130.
>> An NMU fixed #332702.
>> A package with the current upstream release would fix #338807,
>>  #330540, #346181. 
>the changes basically look good (thanks for your work!).
>A few things I've notices
>- I don't think you should put in Franz as maintainer without having
>  received his explicit OK. Upload with maintainer as yourself and
>  co-maintain with Franz when he gets around to it.
>- There is no such thing as "New Maintainer Upload". This is confusing
>  because people will wonder whether that's a typo for Non-MU or
>  something else. Please close the WNPP-Bug with "New Maintainer.
>  Closes:" or somesuch.
>- I couldn't do autoreconf -f (with latest auto* from Debian/sid) for
>  errors like AC_GS_HAS_DEVICE, AC_HAS_KPSE_ENC_FORMATS.
>  I'm not sure what causes this, but I'd like to see these fixed.
>- I'm a bit suspicious about the man-page symlink. Does this actually
>  work or should the symlink have .gz instead?

I don't have that problem when I build the package.

>If you can address these, I'd be willing to sponsor one upload (i.e.
>I'll sponsor this and urgent fixes for stuff I sponsored, but probably
>not frequent updates with 5k diffs).

The QA Group has uploaded orphaned packages in the past. I'll upload
Kapil's package as a QA upload with the maintainer set to the QA
group. Franz is still able to decide what to do with his ITA.

>Kind regards
>
>T.
>-- 
>Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/

Best Regards,

Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
-- 
http://v7w.com/anibal

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