Lintian says "package-contains-ancient-file"

2013-05-26 Thread Olе Streicher
Hi, I am currently working on the (re-)packaging of the "IRAF" astronomical package [1]. This is a huge package with old roots -- the history goes back to the early eighties. Therefore, the package contains a couple of files which are quite old -- some help files, sources, documentation etc. date

CONCLUSION: What's the proper way to build from debian dsc

2013-05-26 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 25 May 2013 04:19:22 +, T o n g wrote: >> Can anyone explain me in simple commands how I can build and test >> upload this glimpse package please? > > Hi, Thanks everyone who helped, including Charles... Hi again, I know it is recommended to always summarise after you get answers t

Bug#707828: RFS: opengrm-ngram/1.0.3-2 -- opengrm n-gram library

2013-05-26 Thread Giulio Paci
Il 25/05/2013 23:36, Jakub Wilk ha scritto: > * Giulio Paci , 2013-05-11, 17:04: >> git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/opengrm-ngram.git > > FWIW, packages are only required to be buildable on architectures for which > they have previously built successfully. So #707826 doesn't need to be > s

Re: Lintian says "package-contains-ancient-file"

2013-05-26 Thread Joey Hess
Olе Streicher wrote: > Therefore, the package contains a couple of files which are quite old -- > some help files, sources, documentation etc. date 1983 and 1984. This > leads to the Lintian *error* shown in the subject. Although I think it > is reasonable to overwrite this tag (the files actually

Bug#706361: closed by Dmitry Smirnov (Re: Bug#706361: gti review)

2013-05-26 Thread Felix Crux
On Fri, May 24 11:15, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > ... snip ... > From: Dmitry Smirnov > To: 706361-d...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#706361: gti review > ... snip ... > Well done Felix, I just uploaded it with one minor correction to short > package description which shouldn't start