On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 07:24:00PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 06:10:55PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >Any better hint? >> >> It sounds like you should replace the functionality of the script in a >> more suitable language, specifically: >> >> * one you (and other maintainers) understand >> * one that's stable and supported on all the platforms in Debian >> >> At the moment, that doesn't sound like Ruby. :-( > >Yes. I asked Dmitry to choose a different language when he introduced >this into the packaging to create an additional binary package. >However, at this time Dmitry volunteered to care for this (and up to >know he did so). If this support would stop my solution would be to >drop the additional binary package (and thus goldendict support) because >I (as the only active maintainer out of the team) can not support this.
Sounds like you made a mistake, I'm afraid. :-( This is a general problem that might be shared usefully with a wider audience - developers should try hard to *not* write build scripts or maintainer scripts in their favourite language-of-the-week. It makes packages that much harder to maintain in general, whether within the existing team, replacement maintainers, the QA team, etc... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane -- 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/20120605173527.gl3...@einval.com
