From costanti at science.unitn.it  Mon Jun 18 14:29:34 2007
From: costanti at science.unitn.it (Marco Costantini)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:29:34 +0200
Subject: [Alexandria-list] various topics: added patch, new release,
	Debian package, ...
Message-ID: <200706182029.34604.costanti@science.unitn.it>

Dear all,
I have added in the svn the anonymous patch
"[#11170] cuecat userland support"
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=11170&group_id=205&atid=865
I added it manually, because the patch refers to an out-of-date version of 
Alexandria, and not to the latest svn version.
I don't have a cuecat, and I don't know whether this patch is OK.
Those who have a cuecat, please check, and feel free to undo the svn revision 
704.


The provider Webster.it seems not to work any more. The site is OK, but ruby 
downloads and empty page. If someone can, please check. This provider 
contains info about book in several languages from various countries.


I'm trying Alexandria on a 64 bit Kubuntu 7.04, and several error messages or 
crashes happens (which didn't happened with 32 bit (K)Ubuntu 6.06).
I don't know yet whether it is Alexandria, or Ruby, or what else.


Apart the main tracker for Alexandria, some bugs have been reported at 
http://bugs.debian.org/alexandria
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alexandria/
The bugs there should be checked (most of them are already known or solved). 
In the future, the main tracker for Alexandria should be used, ad thesen 
should be used only for bugs specific to Alexandria on Debian or Ubuntu.


For maintainer of the Debian package:
the following dependencies should be added:
libwww-mechanize-ruby
libimage-size-ruby1.8
Furthermore, I think that most of alexandria_0.6.1-1.diff.gz is now no more 
needed, or can be added directly in the main version of Alexandria.


For Joseph;
Alexandria seems to be deeply sleeping again. So it is time to release the new 
version.


Cheers,
Marco

From tristil at gmail.com  Mon Jun 18 15:41:33 2007
From: tristil at gmail.com (Joseph Method)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:41:33 -0400
Subject: [Alexandria-list] various topics: added patch, new release,
	Debian package, ...
In-Reply-To: <200706182029.34604.costanti@science.unitn.it>
References: <200706182029.34604.costanti@science.unitn.it>
Message-ID: <167b6aa00706181241v2db407ebh4cb2792221fcc9ec@mail.gmail.com>

You're right, Marco. I've just been terribly busy, probably too busy
to be the lead maintainer. If anyone wants to take over this role, I
promise that I will provide development support, possibly more than I
have in the past. That is, I'll keep programming and maintaining the
website, but someone else can have responsibility for setting
deadlines/making final decisions/rallying the troops :).

I'll release a new Debian package using the Pallet rake task (
http://pallet.rubyforge.org/ ) In addition to those dependencies, I'll
change the ruby-gnome2 version to 0.16 (recently provided for Debian).
This will be like the stopgap release, an unstable release.

On 6/18/07, Marco Costantini <costanti at science.unitn.it> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have added in the svn the anonymous patch
> "[#11170] cuecat userland support"
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=11170&group_id=205&atid=865
> I added it manually, because the patch refers to an out-of-date version of
> Alexandria, and not to the latest svn version.
> I don't have a cuecat, and I don't know whether this patch is OK.
> Those who have a cuecat, please check, and feel free to undo the svn revision
> 704.
>
>
> The provider Webster.it seems not to work any more. The site is OK, but ruby
> downloads and empty page. If someone can, please check. This provider
> contains info about book in several languages from various countries.
>
>
> I'm trying Alexandria on a 64 bit Kubuntu 7.04, and several error messages or
> crashes happens (which didn't happened with 32 bit (K)Ubuntu 6.06).
> I don't know yet whether it is Alexandria, or Ruby, or what else.
>
>
> Apart the main tracker for Alexandria, some bugs have been reported at
> http://bugs.debian.org/alexandria
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alexandria/
> The bugs there should be checked (most of them are already known or solved).
> In the future, the main tracker for Alexandria should be used, ad thesen
> should be used only for bugs specific to Alexandria on Debian or Ubuntu.
>
>
> For maintainer of the Debian package:
> the following dependencies should be added:
> libwww-mechanize-ruby
> libimage-size-ruby1.8
> Furthermore, I think that most of alexandria_0.6.1-1.diff.gz is now no more
> needed, or can be added directly in the main version of Alexandria.
>
>
> For Joseph;
> Alexandria seems to be deeply sleeping again. So it is time to release the new
> version.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marco
> _______________________________________________
> Alexandria-list mailing list
> Alexandria-list at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list
>


-- 
-J. Method

From tristil at gmail.com  Mon Jun 18 23:49:37 2007
From: tristil at gmail.com (Joseph Method)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:49:37 -0400
Subject: [Alexandria-list] various topics: added patch, new release,
	Debian package, ...
In-Reply-To: <167b6aa00706181241v2db407ebh4cb2792221fcc9ec@mail.gmail.com>
References: <200706182029.34604.costanti@science.unitn.it>
	<167b6aa00706181241v2db407ebh4cb2792221fcc9ec@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <167b6aa00706182049o4279b91eub07f675f6d057394@mail.gmail.com>

Okay, here's the first iteration of a package:
http://www.dererum.com/alexandria_0.6.2_all.deb

I want to do a couple more before I make a release on the Rubyforge page.

This deb was made using Pallet. With rake and pallet installed, in the
trunk I type 'rake package:deb' and install the generated package I
find in pkg/ . If I make any changes to the deb recipe in the
rakefile, I type 'rake package:deb:clobber'.

For this first iteration, the ChangeLog is just one entry generated
with dch (from devscripts). The old ChangeLogs need to be moved over
the dch format because it turns out debhelper tools are very anal
about this.

On 6/18/07, Joseph Method <tristil at gmail.com> wrote:
> You're right, Marco. I've just been terribly busy, probably too busy
> to be the lead maintainer. If anyone wants to take over this role, I
> promise that I will provide development support, possibly more than I
> have in the past. That is, I'll keep programming and maintaining the
> website, but someone else can have responsibility for setting
> deadlines/making final decisions/rallying the troops :).
>
> I'll release a new Debian package using the Pallet rake task (
> http://pallet.rubyforge.org/ ) In addition to those dependencies, I'll
> change the ruby-gnome2 version to 0.16 (recently provided for Debian).
> This will be like the stopgap release, an unstable release.
>
> On 6/18/07, Marco Costantini <costanti at science.unitn.it> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > I have added in the svn the anonymous patch
> > "[#11170] cuecat userland support"
> > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=11170&group_id=205&atid=865
> > I added it manually, because the patch refers to an out-of-date version of
> > Alexandria, and not to the latest svn version.
> > I don't have a cuecat, and I don't know whether this patch is OK.
> > Those who have a cuecat, please check, and feel free to undo the svn revision
> > 704.
> >
> >
> > The provider Webster.it seems not to work any more. The site is OK, but ruby
> > downloads and empty page. If someone can, please check. This provider
> > contains info about book in several languages from various countries.
> >
> >
> > I'm trying Alexandria on a 64 bit Kubuntu 7.04, and several error messages or
> > crashes happens (which didn't happened with 32 bit (K)Ubuntu 6.06).
> > I don't know yet whether it is Alexandria, or Ruby, or what else.
> >
> >
> > Apart the main tracker for Alexandria, some bugs have been reported at
> > http://bugs.debian.org/alexandria
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alexandria/
> > The bugs there should be checked (most of them are already known or solved).
> > In the future, the main tracker for Alexandria should be used, ad thesen
> > should be used only for bugs specific to Alexandria on Debian or Ubuntu.
> >
> >
> > For maintainer of the Debian package:
> > the following dependencies should be added:
> > libwww-mechanize-ruby
> > libimage-size-ruby1.8
> > Furthermore, I think that most of alexandria_0.6.1-1.diff.gz is now no more
> > needed, or can be added directly in the main version of Alexandria.
> >
> >
> > For Joseph;
> > Alexandria seems to be deeply sleeping again. So it is time to release the new
> > version.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Marco
> > _______________________________________________
> > Alexandria-list mailing list
> > Alexandria-list at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list
> >
>
>
> --
> -J. Method
>


-- 
-J. Method