Re: package sponsorship request
Thanks for this awesome tip. It is actually a big winner and I will
be using it a lot in the future to avoid writing all the useless files
for every new project.
> As far as this particular issue goes, have you considered simply
> running automake --foreign ?
This, of course, is a game-changer on my packaging policy (looks like
a way to simplify) so I will be doing that in the future. However,
the AUTHORS and THANKS files serve another purpose in this case
besides letting (simply-invoked)
automake succeed. They also help explain that my friend Chih-Jen and
his friend Chih Chung wrote the core math code together, but I myself
wrote the manpages, packaging related files, and some new features
that Chih-Jen did not accept, like the quiet option. This is
essential to be in Debian but since Chih-Jen never agreed with the
feature enhancement I felt it important to distinguish who added it in
these new files. Because I don't want to add things under his name.
That is why I clarified who wrote what the way I did as I thought was
standard creditting policy.
BTW the source is not on alioth yet it is downloadable as a tar (but
not automatically) from the web and I have a Mercurial repos here with
the packaging files. I can put it up on a public Mercurial URL
(http:) on my server but I am not sure if I have enough access to put
it up on alioth or not yet ; my Debian account is still waiting.
Cheers,
-r.
On 10/5/07, Aaron M. Ucko <ucko@debian.org> wrote:
> "Rudi Cilibrasi" <cilibrar@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Michael Koch believes it is inappropriate for me to be changing
> > AUTHORS and THANKS. Actually, I made those up quite some time ago to
> > allow for automake to be used in packaging (optionally). But, he
>
>
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
> http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?amu@monk.mit.edu
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