Dear Holger and all other participants, onsdag den 9 februari 2011 klockan 16:22 skrev Holger Levsen detta: > Hi Mats, > > On Dienstag, 8. Februar 2011, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > > > - you have a build-dep on debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), which is not in the > > > archive. I assume this is intentional?! > > The use of an override target using debhelper is functional > > as of version 7.0.50~. This is clearly stated in the manual > > page and this dependency has become a semi-habit, since I have > > been able to observe the migration of debhelper this past year. > > I understand, but you can consider it as useless cruft which you'll have to > remove some day anyway. But keep it if you like! 8-) > > (Do you really expect backports to pure lenny? lenny-backports already has > debhelper 8.0.0~)
Good point. I have now chosen compatibility "8" and hence a debhelper dependency "(>= 8)" in the control file. > > > > - did you send your three patches upstream? > > See the stanza "Forwarded": yes. I am in contact with the > > upstream author ever since my corrections to version 0.3, > > when I coded the porting to OpenBSD and GNU/kFreeBSD. > > Ah, cool! I inserted Applied-Upstream stanzas in the two patches that have gone into Upstream's Launchpad repository. > > > > - the initscript could maybe go with a copyright header... > > So many initscripts are working without such an attribution > > that I ignored it. If you mean it should be there, then I will > > insert a minimal punch line. > > Well, it's debatable if it contains enough significant bits (I believe it > does, but IANAL), but it doesnt hurt and the skeleton initscript does contain > a copyright. > > (I really don't care that much one way or the other. But this is mentors, > right? So I try to make you think ;-P A small insert stating that I wrote the script, and some cosmetic changes while I were at it. More importantly, I did take notice of the fruitful discussion on the disadvantages of disabling a service in the default-script. Thus I removed that mechanism completely. The ability to use a status call with the initscript and the message conveyed in #601455 are very convincing when read in one context. > > > I will do the small corrections, upload again, and let > > the new packaging be known. > > Did you upload yet? Now a renewed packaging is available. Best regards, Mats E A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110209171211.ga4...@mea.homelinux.org
