Hi Ben, On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:53:39 +1000, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > On 12-Dec-2015, Ben Finney wrote: > > I now have ITPs for ‘inform6-compiler’ and ‘inform6-library’, and > > those now block <URL:https://bugs.debian.org/805704> the ITP for > > ‘inform6’. > > > > The packaging work for those two new packages is done, and my plan > > is to ask you to sponsor them to close Bug#807636 and Bug#807637 as > > a pre-requisite. > > The packages for those two are IMO ready. The upstream code bases have > made stable releases and I have been using them on my own machines. > > I have uploaded the following two source packages: > > * <URL:https://mentors.debian.net/package/inform6-library> > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/inform6-library/inform6-library_6.12-1.dsc This looks good, the only potential issue I see is that the license for infglk.h isn't clear, and its creation date is wrong (1000802). I had a quick poke around but couldn't find the glk2inf.pl tool which was used to generate it... > * <URL:https://mentors.debian.net/package/inform6-compiler> > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/inform6-compiler/inform6-compiler_6.33-1.dsc The resulting package needs to break/replace the inform package since it installs /usr/bin/inform and /usr/share/man/man1/inform.1.gz. > Please let me know what is needed for you to approve and sponsor these > into Debian. See above :-). Also, the latest released version of Policy is 3.9.8, and your packaging conforms to that so you might as well bump Standards-Version. > > Then I'm also waiting on David Griffith to release version “6.33.1” > > of his ‘inform6unix’ work, and that will be used as upstream for > > ‘inform6’ in Debian. > > That is still pending, though I am of the opinion the Debian packaging > work is ready. I have pinged David to see what can be done to get a > stable release ready. Excellent, thanks for all your work on this! Regards, Stephen
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