Re: Bug#362584: xindy debian package
Hi Jörg!
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> > I don't know. Norbert didn't reply until today.
>
> We were busy working on texlive-2007. And I must admit I don't remember
Yes, sorry that I didn't answer till now, but I was too busy with TL
upstream and tl Debian packages.
> > BTW: Do you have the same problems with the sources on
> > http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/debian e.g. does dpkg complain about
> > unvalid check sums?
>
> No, here it unpacks fine. I've looked at it, here are some questions:
Here too, maybe it was an download error some time ago.
> - wouldn't it better to patch the Makefile to disable maintainer mode,
> instead of setting all those variables? And wouldn't it make sense to
> patch the Makefile sources, too, to allow easy submission of the
> patches to upstream?
>
> - Isn't it possible (and if yes, a cleaner approach) to pass --docdir
> already to the configure call, not make install?
Other suggestions by me:
- please repackage the .orig.tar.gz: You include the whole clisp code
for nothing, which makes up 90% of the unpacked sources, but AFAIS
it is not used for anything.
- rules file: dh_makeshlibs is unecessary (AFAIS) remove it. Also the
call to dh_perl seems to be useless (but this I didn't check in
detail)
Otherwise I agree with Frank.
Best wishes
Norbert
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