On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Samuel Bronson <naes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: >> * Samuel Bronson <naes...@gmail.com>, 2012-02-26, 17:49: >> >>> * Fix "hyphen-used-as-minus-sign" warning from lintian. >> >> This patch... >> >>> * New patch 03-allow-echoing-compilation-commands.patch, which enables >>> printing of compilation commands by default. >> >> ...and this patch have Forwarded headers pointing to gmane. Could you use >> links to the "official" web archive (i.e., >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/) instead? Not every one likes >> gmane (e.g. I cannot stand its UI); lists.gnu.org would be more neutral. >> >> (I won't be insistent about this, feel free to ignore me.) > > I was actually thinking maybe I should link to the official GNU > archives, but then I noticed what they did to anything resembling an > email address and decided not to do that -- gmane's mangling is at > least *almost* reversible. > >> Also, if you wanted the patch headers to follow DEP-3, then you probably >> need to remove stuff like "diff -Naurp tack.orig/tack.1 tack/tack.1" or >> "Index: tack-1.06/tack.1". Otherwise such lines could[0] be misinterpreted >> by a parser as a part of patch header. >> >> [0] I said "could" because the specification is far being clear (or maybe I >> should say s/clear/unambiguous/). > > Well, *quilt* certainly doesn't misinterpret these lines thus. I don't > really feel like removing things like this merely because of what > DEP-3 neglects to specify; it really seems more like an issue with > DEP-3 to me. > > (Also, patch #03 was originally produced by dpkg-source; I did remove > some templates, but kept the overall format the same. I suppose > *maybe* I should have left that line of three dashes?) > > If and when DEP-3 were to be clarified on this point, I'd be happy to > change the patches to comply with it. > > -- Samuel Bronson
But note that Thomas Dickey has prepared a snapshot which is supposed to do patch #03's job a different way, and fix that dpkg-shlibdeps warning: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2012-02/msg00022.html>. (I'll take a look at this in the morning.) -- 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/CAJYzjmfGBkEC63TgD1semm48KvbBUZCEnE=2xmjbtst2tms...@mail.gmail.com
