On 2009-09-21 22:31 +0200, Ryan Niebur wrote: > Hi Sven, > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:03:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> I have some interest in this package as a prospective ncurses >> co-maintainer, because ne is *very* picky about wrong terminfo entries, >> and that helped me to discover that the xterm-256color terminfo had a >> wrong backspace description. However, I certainly won't use ne as an >> editor for any serious work, since I'm forever addicted to the One True >> Editor¹, and with that state of affairs I cannot really maintain ne. >> >> Today I've hacked around the package a bit, fixing the lintian warnings >> and upgrading it to version 2.0.3 which has (limited) syntax >> highlighting. What remains is to split the package (most of the stuff >> lives in /usr/share, meaning that an arch-independent binary package is >> in order), and to update debian/copyright. If anyone is interested in >> that work, please mail me. >> > > why not just upload it as a QA upload?
Because it's not really suited as such -- new upstream release with lots of changes, lots of changes in the Debian packaging as well; that's a bit invasive for a QA upload. And I would need to find a sponsor, and these guys tend to be (rightfully) rather picky about the issues I haven't fixed yet: ,---- | % lintian -I ne_2.0.3-1_i386.changes | I: ne source: quilt-patch-missing-description debian-Makefile.diff | I: ne: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 2424kB 89% | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:8 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:11 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:12 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:13 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:14 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:15 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:16 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:17 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:18 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:19 | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz 1 more occurrences not shown | I: ne: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration `---- So I just offer my help to anyone who wants to maintain ne properly; if that turns out to be nobody, it should be removed from the archive anyway after some time. It's not like there's a shortage of text editors in Debian. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
