On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 16:31:07 -0500 Matt Zimmerman wrote
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 04:27:12PM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
>> It is progressing, but slowly. I appear to have overcommitted
>> myself, and tvtime is not quite amicable to Debian packaging.
>> For me to see tvtime Debian ready, I think we'll need to do the
>> following things, sorted from easiest to most difficult:
>> 1) Make tvtime look for its fonts from the ttf-freefont package, and not
>> ship them ourselves.
>> 2) Fix the Autoconf / Automake badness with "tvtime*dir" variables.
>> 3) Use Debconf in the postinst to build a default /etc/tvtime/tvtimrc
>> file. This should resemble dexconf in some respects, although I'd
>> consider it better if the postinst could parse the file.
>> I have not yet committed my packaging to CVS, since it is not
>> yet atomic. If you are interested in trying to kill bugs 1 and 2, I
>> could put some time into exposing my work.
> If you can get your code into a public CVS repository somewhere, I'll see
> what I can do about 1 and 2.
Hello,
How about pkg-tvtime on alioth?
> I don't think that the third item should hold
> up inclusion of the package in Debian, to be honest.
I agree.
BTW there is another problem (probably a subproblem of 2), tvtime
throws the binary plugins in /usr/share/ instead of /usr/lib.
At least the copyright seems to be ok. ;-)
cu andreas
