Hallo Frank,
Frank Küster schrieb am Mon 05. Feb, 08:08 (+0100):
> Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>
> > Vladimir Volovich schrieb am Sat 03. Feb, 18:39 (+0300):
> >> "JS" == Jörg Sommer writes:
> >>
> >> >> Do you plan to continue supporting/maintaining this package? If
> >> >> yes I can play the sponsor.
> >>
> >> JS> Hey, this would be great, really great.
> >>
> >> when can we expect xindy to appear in sid?
> >
> > 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
> what you said about the current packages: Do you think we can upload
> them, or are there still issues?
Yes and no. Now, I use this version nearly one year and it works. It's
ready to go to unstable and later to testing.
> The upstream version is a beta - is this releasable?
Yes. Upstream does not release very often and AFIAK the beta state is,
because their is no clear documentation how to build the tar.gz from the
CVS.
> > 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:
>
> - wouldn't it better to patch the Makefile to disable maintainer mode,
> instead of setting all those variables?
Maybe. The problem is, that any Makefile can trigger a rebuild of the
configure script, which triggers a rebuild of the Makefiles, which
breaks my patches.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/04/msg00519.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/06/msg00143.html
> And wouldn't it make sense to patch the Makefile sources, too, to
> allow easy submission of the patches to upstream?
I've submitted the realy fix for this bug: disable automaintainer mode.
This was accepted by upstream.
> - Isn't it possible (and if yes, a cleaner approach) to pass --docdir
> already to the configure call, not make install?
No, the docdir is hard coded in doc/Makefile.am as $(datadir)/doc/…
which is /usr/doc/…
> Otherwise, the packaging looks nice and clean, and the patches are
> reasonable (a lot of them should be submitted upstream, have you done
> that? Have you already established a contact with Joachim?).
Yes, all my patches, except to one for external clisp, are accepted.
Bye, Jörg.
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(John B. Priestley)
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