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please unblock piespy/0.4.0-2.1



On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 05:10:26PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> piespy has an RC bug open (#484535) for one week less than three months.
> It has seen no maintainer attention (only one hint by Michael Vogt that
> it only runs properly with non-free software). Popcon installed is 15.

> As it never has been released with Debian, it might be good to remove
> it from lenny.

Apart from the appalling maintainership, I disagree. This bug is both easy
to fix (depend on openjdk, which finally is in main) and inflated
severity. Since when is "Does not run with $DISPLAY properly setup" ==
"Justification: renders package unusable" ???
</rant>

Fixed version uploaded, and with casual testing appears to work
even without DISPLAY being set. debdiff:

diff -u piespy-0.4.0/debian/dirs piespy-0.4.0/debian/dirs
--- piespy-0.4.0/debian/dirs
+++ piespy-0.4.0/debian/dirs
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 usr/bin
-usr/sbin
 usr/share/piespy
diff -u piespy-0.4.0/debian/control piespy-0.4.0/debian/control
--- piespy-0.4.0/debian/control
+++ piespy-0.4.0/debian/control
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@
 Maintainer: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), gcj | java-compiler, fastjar | jar, xsltproc, docbook-xsl
 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Homepage: http://www.jibble.org/piespy/

 Package: piespy
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, gij | java-runtime
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, openjdk-6-jre | java-runtime
 Description: An IRC bot to visualize social networks
  PieSpy is an IRC bot that monitors a set of IRC channels. It uses a
  simple set of heuristics to infer relationships between pairs of users.
diff -u piespy-0.4.0/debian/changelog piespy-0.4.0/debian/changelog
--- piespy-0.4.0/debian/changelog
+++ piespy-0.4.0/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+piespy (0.4.0-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Switch to openjdk, closes: #484535, #481988
+  * Add homepage field
+  * Remove empty dir /usr/sbin from package
+
+ -- Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>  Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:14:53 +0300
+
 piespy (0.4.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fix duplicate entry in debian/docs



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