Bug#547225: O: ne -- Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 23:02, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2009-09-21 22:31 +0200, Ryan Niebur wrote:
>
>> Hi Sven,
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:03:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> I have some interest in this package as a prospective ncurses
>>> co-maintainer, because ne is *very* picky about wrong terminfo entries,
>>> and that helped me to discover that the xterm-256color terminfo had a
>>> wrong backspace description. However, I certainly won't use ne as an
>>> editor for any serious work, since I'm forever addicted to the One True
>>> Editorš, and with that state of affairs I cannot really maintain ne.
>>>
>>> Today I've hacked around the package a bit, fixing the lintian warnings
>>> and upgrading it to version 2.0.3 which has (limited) syntax
>>> highlighting. What remains is to split the package (most of the stuff
>>> lives in /usr/share, meaning that an arch-independent binary package is
>>> in order), and to update debian/copyright. If anyone is interested in
>>> that work, please mail me.
>>>
>>
>> why not just upload it as a QA upload?
>
> Because it's not really suited as such -- new upstream release with lots
> of changes, lots of changes in the Debian packaging as well; that's a
> bit invasive for a QA upload.
?? QA uploads are just like any other uploads, but they are done in
the name of the QA team. that's all. So please go ahead.
> And I would need to find a sponsor, and these guys tend to be
> (rightfully) rather picky about the issues I haven't fixed yet:
>
> ,----
> | % lintian -I ne_2.0.3-1_i386.changes
> | I: ne source: quilt-patch-missing-description debian-Makefile.diff
20 secs to fix (included typing the commands)
> | I: ne: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 2424kB 89%
could not be an issue.
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:8
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:11
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:12
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:13
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:14
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:15
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:16
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:17
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:18
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:19
> | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz 1 more occurrences not shown
ultra easy to fix (hint: you need a '\').
> | I: ne: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
1-3 minutes to fix.
> So I just offer my help to anyone who wants to maintain ne properly; if
> that turns out to be nobody, it should be removed from the archive
> anyway after some time. It's not like there's a shortage of text
> editors in Debian.
Please consider to fix those simple lintian warnings and then submit a
RFS on debian-mentors@l.d.o: this way, your help would be much more
effective.
REgards,
--
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi
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