Re: RFS: roxterm (new maintainer, 1.15.1-1 ready for sponsored release)

2009-07-04 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 03:18:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Not that anyone gets this right in practice, but I think calling > update-alternatives unconditionally in postinst is the correct way to > handle the error rollback cases. > > You don't want to call it unconditionally in prerm because

Re: RFS: roxterm (new maintainer, 1.15.1-1 ready for sponsored release)

2009-07-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Wiltshire writes: > I may be wrong, but you should probably test in your postinst what apt > wants you to do (install, upgrade, abort etc). See > /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/postinst.ex for an example. The > summary at the top is useful. Blindly using 'update-alternatives > --ins

Re: RFS: roxterm (new maintainer, 1.15.1-1 ready for sponsored release)

2009-07-04 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
(IANADD, so no upload from me - sorry) On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:43:04PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > Lintian gave a couple of warnings because it thought I was trying to > perform a NMU. Presumably a sponsor will update the system to list me as > maintainer and that will be resolved? At the mo

RFS: roxterm (new maintainer, 1.15.1-1 ready for sponsored release)

2009-07-04 Thread Tony Houghton
Acting on received advice I updated the previous maintainer's packaging files and used a single package. roxterm 1.15.1-1 is ready for a prospective sponsor to test and upload it. Lintian gave a couple of warnings because it thought I was trying to perform a NMU. Presumably a sponsor will update t