On 08/08/2014 08:10 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 12:51:58AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> >> I've addressed some of the lintian issues, but I'm not looking forward >> to fixing all the lintian issues. Especially writing the many man pages > > While I agree that having a manpage for each executable in /usr/bin is a > nice thing to have sometimes you have to balance what might be more in > the interest of our users: Waiting for ages until a packages goes out > equipped with a full set of manpaged or just providing something that > works in a timely manner. Several times I decided for the later.
Agreed. Adding the man pages is something left for later. >> and overhauling the libraries to use symbols files and separate packages >> for each library. > > Same here. I admit I stopped providing symbols files for all library > packages I feel responsible for. Admittedly they are not heavily used > and are not featuring a lot of dependant packages but these symbols > files created such a high maintenance burden that I decided to drop > these. > > Regarding the separated libraries I would also take a pragmatic point of > view. It takes two times time: First you need to work on the packaging > and than it needs to pass new queue. I'm not sure if this is rectified > for a basically cosmetic change and if we should delay this until after > the release. In this case have the package pass through NEW for the library packages is my primary concern. >> I don't think we should wait much longer to upload the recent changes. > > +1 I only want to add a pristine-tar branch before the upload to have the orig.tar.gz from snapshot.d.o recreatable. > Kind regards > > Andreas. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/E88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
