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

[L.C. Karssen]

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 16:31 +0000, Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
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> "L.C. Karssen" <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:
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> 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.

> 
> I didn't know that Daniel had raised concerns, those just look like
> comments. 
I didn't understand Daniel's remarks either so I e-mailed him asking
whether action was required from our side. Haven't had a reply yet. 
I guess the problem lies in the fact that the new Ubuntu version (Hardy)
is now in Feature Freeze. So normally they wouldn't accept big changes
in packages anymore. The question is if they consider our changes as too
big or not. I assume Daniel and Siegfried think so. 

> 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]
I haven't checked the old and new Changelog, but from the comment I
assume that some of the entries of the old Changelog are not present in
the new one. For continuity purposes that might be considered harmful or
at least make things unclear. 

> 
>  - 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]
I guess he wants to say that compared to the 0.6.1 package we added
several automatically generated files? I'm also a bit in the dark here.

> 
>  - 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]
That's a good point. 

> 
> 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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