On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:54:55PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Kalle, > > I am only a Debian Elinks user, and occasionally contribute; Giridhar > and Moritz Mühlenhoff should probably make the decisions, but here are > my comments anyway. > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 08:04:47PM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > > As reported at <http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=1117>, > > contrib/debian/elinks.desktop is in a pre-standard format that > > triggers a warning from the mimeo program. I could easily fix > > that in the upstream elinks sources; however, Debian already has > > an up-to-date elinks.desktop file that also includes translations > > to a few languages. To avoid needless forking, I'd like to copy > > that version to the elinks-0.12 branch and later merge to master. > > This sounds fair. > > > Then, to keep authorship information, I think I should also copy > > debian/changelog, and perhaps the rest of the debian directory. > > According to <http://bugzilla.elinks.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=988>, the > > Debian maintainer does not want us to have a debian/ directory in > > the ELinks sources, so the files would go in contrib/debian/. > > Does that seem reasonable to do? > > This is primarily because the Debian packaging provided by upstreams > is usually not compliant with the ideas and standards required or > imposed by the Debian maintainers themselves. However, in case you are > merely going to ship the currently up-to-date debian/ directory, I can > see two ways where you can do so without hurting the Debian > maintainers: > > - Just ship the debian/ directory and don't make changes to it, or > make only those changes which the Debian maintainers would make > anyway, and/or > - Become a co-maintainer of the Debian package. > > If these aren't suitable to you (and the Debian maintainers), then an > alternate solution would be necessary. > > > Also, should I make the commit a merge (from > > git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/elinks.git#debian/unstable), > > or would that just complicate later Debian maintenance? > > I don't see why a merge would complicate things, although Moritz and > Giridhar can comment further on their paradigm on packaging. > > > I suppose another solution would be to move elinks.desktop out of > > contrib/debian/ and update AUTHORS accordingly. It does look a > > bit odd that the Arch Linux build script reads a file from a > > Debian-specific directory. > > This is a possible solution, but this does seem like unnecessary > duplication. From my perspective, if you maintain the debian directory > in a way where the debian maintainers can pull it in and use it with > overlaid changes, I don't see the need to move it out of the > way. Moritz, Giridhar: please correct me if I am wrong.
Hi, I'm currently short of time, so just a quick comments: - The current source format properly supports having the debian dir in the main tree, so there's no need to move it to contrib: http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 - Personally I would be happy to move elinks to a larger maintenance group, so if this is fine with Giridhar we'd be happy to sync the debian dir with upstream git. - Likewise if you, Kumar, wants to join for maintenance that would be welcome as well. Cheers, Moritz _______________________________________________ elinks-dev mailing list elinks-dev@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-dev
