[Alexandria-list] New packages in alexandria-team PPA

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:48:51 +0100
"L.C. Karssen" <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:

> I just got a reply to the bug report in Launchapd for the 0.6.1 ->
> 0.6.2. Check it out at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191905 
> It appears that we need to follow a slightly different protocol, since
> we already have the packages in the PPA.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess
> 
I realise that large organisations like Debian and Ubuntu need to
have bureaucracy to run smoothly, but I don't understand the latest two
comments on that report.

- From Daniel Holbach:
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Lots of changes have been made in the packaging:
 - dropped changelog entries,
 - changed maintainer
 - added generated postinst/postrm/prerm?
 - dropped watch file, dropped menu file, dropped manpage.

- From Siegfried Gevatter:
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Please address Daniel's concerns...


I didn't know that Daniel had raised concerns, those just look like
comments. Inaccurate comments at that. And I can't see what answers
we can give to them. Or if we're supposed to. Anyway:

Lots of changes have been made in the packaging:
[Yes, it's been two years, and we now create the deb files ourselves.]

 - dropped changelog entries,
[They're generated by 'svn log' now]

 - changed maintainer
[Because the old maintainer left the project, what ya gonna do?]

 - added generated postinst/postrm/prerm?
[Um, I don't know what 'added generated' means, but we do now have those
files as part of the installation process]

 - dropped watch file, dropped menu file, dropped manpage.
[Not sure about the watch file, menu files are deprecated anyway, and
in fact we have a new manpage which I wrote myself]

Does this address the concerns? I'm not going to comment directly on
the report (and please don't just copy and paste my comments) since my
inherent grumpiness will no doubt needlessly irritate the Ubuntu people
when the only problem really is that I don't understand the process
they're following.

Anywho... cheers,

   -   C.
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