Subject: Re: commit -- comply with debian policy
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 20:21:04 CST
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:53:51PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:54:55PM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> > Do other distributions have rules about this sort of thing? Do they
> > have tools to check compliance?
> >
> > Our deb packages now pass lintian with only one warning, and that
> > one's bogus.
> >
> > Comply with debian policy. Basically just made a bunch of documentation
> > non-executable.
>
>
> I am stil waiting for gecko to actually upload the package. It seems
> that you're doing most of the work for him, so he really doesn't have
> much of an excuse for keeping an ancient version of AbiWord in the
> Debain distribution.
Yeah, I applied virtually the entirety of his build patch (it's really
quite nice). So creating new debian builds is basically trivial. And
the produced package is now entirely in compliance with debian policy.
>
> I have offered to adopt the package from him without success.
I'd be willing to do this also, if someone wanted to help out as I
progress throught the NM queue.
Just so you know, once I find some docs on setting it up, I'll have an
aptable source for nightly abiword builds. :-)
sam th
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