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From: |
Russell Stuart |
Subject: |
[DotGNU]Debian packages |
Date: |
03 Sep 2004 12:08:05 +1000 |
This email is directed at Rhys, but I am putting it on the
list so everyone knows what is going on.
Rhys,
You may recall I sent this email to pnet-developers:
http://dotgnu.org/pipermail/pnet-developers/2004-July/001481.html
I didn't get any replies.
Well, I proceeded as planned and now have Debian packages for all
of PNet. Well, pnet, pnetlib, pnetC and treecc anyway. I would of
included ml-pnet, but it doesn't appear to compile and pnetcurses -
but there are no man page entries so it isn't useful without the
source. They pass all of the automated Debian checks (lintian /
pbuilder). I am currently trying to get them uploaded to Debian.
I fear I am too late for sarge - but we will see. You can find
the packages here:
http://www.lubemobile.com.au/debian/
Now to the problem. When I started I knew Andrew Mitchell
had done some previous work on this. I thought he had lost
interest about 18 months ago, but nonetheless that I cc'ed
him on the above email. I have now discovered that he is
maintaining one package: treecc. The last update to treecc
in the Debian repositories is Mar 2004, so its one version
out of date. I wanted a modern version of treecc given my
past clashes with it, so I updated that as well.
Having done the work, I should now commit it to CVS.
But that means I will overwrite Andrew's contributions. I
am hesitant to do this, principally because as he is still
actively maintaining the treecc Debian package. The last
commit he did to CVS for treecc seems to be on 23/Nov/2002,
so he must be maintaining a private copy somewhere. If he
had responded to my previous email I would of resolved
the issue with him. But he didn't, so I am wondering
what I should do.
The other problem is that there are directories in the released
.tar.gz's that should not be there - eg:
pnet-0.6.8.tar.gz/debian/pnet
which can play havoc with the Debian build process. Will they
disappear in the next release if I remove all the files under
them?
--
Russell Stuart
- [DotGNU]Debian packages,
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