On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 03:42:23 +1000, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: [...] > So there appears to be a path – work carefully to get those parts > packaged for Debian as build dependencies for ‘infglk.h’.
Indeed, which is good news all told. > None the less, I would like the current “6.12+dfsg.1-1” release of > ‘inform6-library’ in Debian, because it works fine without ‘infglk.h’ > (that is provided only as a convenience) and is now free software. > > The file is not needed for any of the advertised features of the > package; the library already contained support for producing Glk > output since before version 6.12. I have compiled some example Inform > 6 source to Glulx story files without that file. > > Between omitting the file because it lacks corresponding source, and > delaying to get the build dependencies for this convenience file, I > would rather do the former for now. OK, that's fine by me. I just have two comments on the repacked version on Mentors: * you could use "Files-Excluded" in debian/copyright instead of adding a repack script (have we had this discussion before?); * since there is a way to make version 6.12 DFSG-free as provided upstream, it would be nice to prepare an upgrade path — so I would prefer a ~dfsg version instead of +dfsg. Regards, Stephen
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