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

[Joseph Method]

> > 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.

Yeah, the basic problem may be that they expect an "upstream update"
closely matching old packages and we're uploading basically a new
package. I agree with Cathal's sentiment that, well, it's been two
years and we lost our maintainer! On the other hand, we're late :(

>  >  - 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.

Hehe. "Whose business is it whether I generate my files?" Do we know
if it's against policy? Actually, Cathal, could you explain the
strategy for generating those files, just in case I built the package
wrong? For the record, after making some fixes in the Rakefile I just
stepped into the directory and ran `debuild -S -sa`, stepped down and
did `dput alexandria-team *.dsc`. So I didn't make the package
directly using `rake package`, but just allowed the package to build
in pbuilder and on the Launchpad server.

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

I checked using `dpkg-query --listfiles alexandria` and the manpage is there.

Lennart, you sent the email directly to Daniel Holbach? Because the
one you sent to the bug doesn't seem to be there. In general, we
should emphasize the newness of this package and that it meets the
criterion that a "new feature is needed for the release and will not
introduce more problems than it fixes" -- certainly Alexandria is
*way* more buggy/feature-incomplete at just 0.6.1.

In any case, if we fail at this, we should try to get into Debian
ASAP. It'll be less of this headache in the future, because of the
automatic sync.
-- 
-J. Method