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Bug#592133: RFP: curlpp -- C++ wrapper for libcurl



Op woensdag 18 september 2013 20:50:01 schreef Ximin Luo:
> > - All 4 files you install via "debian/docs" should probably not be
> > installed. NEWS is empty, INSTALL contains instructions for building the
> > package (not needed in a Debian package that's already built), README
> > contains things that can also be found elsewhere in the package. CHANGES
> > should be installed but as /usr/share/doc/*/changelog.gz instead of the
> > placeholderfile that's there now.
> 
> Done, mostly. I decided to keep the README since it does contain some
> non-redundant info, it seems weird not to have one even if it's short, and
> lots of other packages have short READMEs that one could argue are
> redundant - see /usr/share/doc/*/README. I hope this is OK. I've also used
> the --link-doc option of dh_installdocs to link libcurlpp-dev's docs to
> libcurlpp0 to avoid repetition.

Thanks. I would indeed argue that most of those READMEs are indeed redundant 
and should be dropped, but it's not a big deal.

> > - In debian/patches/, both patches should probably have a header
> > "Forwarded: http://code.google.com/p/curlpp/issues/detail?id=25";.
> 
> DEP-3 http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ says in regards to Forwarded:
> 
> "If the field is missing, its implicit value is "yes" if the "Bug" field is
> present, otherwise it's "no". The field is really required only if the
> patch is vendor specific, in that case its value should be "not-needed" to
> indicate that the patch must not be forwarded upstream (whereas "no"
> simply means that it has not yet been done).
> 
> for fix-include-config, the field is "not-needed" since it is
> vendor-specific (the patch breaks the install for windows users), and for
> include-dynamic-headers we can omit the field because the Bug field is
> already present.

OK, good.

> > If this is fixed, I think I can sponsor your package.
> 
> Uploaded new version to mentors, at the previous address:
> 
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/curlpp/curlpp_0.7.3-1.dsc

Alright, uploaded. Let me know if there are updates you want sponsored. Thanks 
for your work so far.


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