On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 07:04:25PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:02:06PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > Dear mentors, > > > > > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.1-3 of the "wmanager" > > > > package; I am hereby attempting to adopt it, fix its two bugs, and > > > > bring it > > > > up-to-date with the Debian policy and the modern world in general :) > > > > > > I will review your package. You made quite a few changes, so it might > > > take me several days. > > > > Ok, my (very few) comments: > Done, see below for the updated package. > > However, there just might be a problem here - not with wmanager itself, > but a more general problem. I pretty much copied those rules from the > dpatch manual - the "DPATCH IN DEBIAN PACKAGES" section. The examples > given there will not work with parallel make either. > > Should a bug against dpatch be filed to update the manual? Or should we > wait until people come to at least some sort of agreement on the > parallel make issue before filing any bugs and making changes? :) > (yeah, I guess you can tell I've been following the parallel make > discussion on debian-policy ;)
Well, even if we decide not to support paralel builds at all, I see no reason to make them difficult on purpose, so I guess it's still a bug in dpatch to be suggesting this ;) > > 2. It would be nice to pass along at least the makefile patch > > upstream. > Actually I intend to pass *all* the changes upstream ... > On to your actual question - yes, if the upstream author turns out to be > inactive, I do intend to take up maintainership of wmanager Cool. > > 3. Will you be wanting to keep debian/rules as is, or are you planning > > to migrate to some helper package? If the second, be aware that I'm > > not willing to sponsor cdbs based packages. I don't understand it and > > I'm not really willing to learn it. Thus, I'd politely recommend ;) > > you use debhelper. > > Well, I myself like debhelper very much, and both my local packages > (most of which will never see the light of day for work-related reasons) > and the timelimit package that I've RFS'd recently are all done using > debhelper. With wmanager, the situation is somewhat weird - Tommi > Virtanen actually used it in the past, but dropped it in version 0.2-4 > seven years ago. We'll see - there's a very good chance that I will > reintroduce debhelper at some point instead of doing things by hand > (like the md5sums file creation). In this version, I just wanted to > deviate as little as possible from Tommi Virtanen's work. That's good. And it's good you started small, too. > > Other than that, your package is very nicely updated, so as soon as > > you do the patching rules fixes, I can sponsor this version. > > Thanks a lot! :) I uploaded an updated version to mentors.debian.net - > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wmanager/wmanager_0.2.1-3.dsc Got it. I'm currently building and testing a final time, and will upload it shortly. Feel free to contact me privately for further sponsoring for this package. -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28
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