Hi, Petr Salinger wrote: > the current freebsd-manpages are severely outdated. > The last upload is more than 2 years ago.
Seems still the case. > The packaging have not been in glibc-bsd SVN repository. > I added it from last upload. The update to 8.4 is trivial. Thanks. JFTR: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/glibc-bsd/trunk/freebsd-manpages/debian/ > But the upstream seems to no longer provide manpages directly > in 9.x series. The "get-orig-source" have to be rewritten. > > I would preffer to upload of 8.4 now and after > that prepare packaging to be ready for 9.2 release. +1 Gürkan Sengün wrote: > I don't have a plan for the migration or updates. Please go ahead > with your plan, sounds good to me... Petr Salinger wrote: > So, please could some DD do the upload ? Will do. Petr Salinger wrote: > > How do I build it? > > "get-orig-source" recipe seems to be: > > apt-get install lftp > > cd <glibc-bsd SVN> > svn up > cd freebsd-manpages > debian/rules update > mkdir freebsd-manpages-8.4 > cp manpages.a* freebsd-manpages-8.4/ > tar czvf ../freebsd-manpages_8.4.orig.tar.gz freebsd-manpages-8.4 > rm -rf freebsd-manpages-8.4/ > > The rest is to edit debian/changelog and usual build. I'll change that system a little bit. I always disliked freebsd-manpages' strange packaging (Sorry, Gürkan) which stores a splitted upstream tar ball put into a new tar ball instead of just taking upstream's tar ball back together for the .orig.tar.gz. O.o Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
