Source: imediff2 Version: 1.1.2-3 Severity: minor As I read carefully this source to fix #799865, I saw several irregularities.
If you try to update manpage by editing imediff2-docbook.xml, the generated imediff2.1 by the "make" invocation does not yield properly formatted manpage: | $ make imediff2.1 | xsltproc --novalid /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl imediff2-docbook.xml | Note: meta source : no *info/productname or alternative imediff2 | Note: meta source : see http://docbook.sf.net/el/productname imediff2 | Note: meta source : no refentry/refmeta/refmiscinfo@class=source imediff2 | Note: meta source : see http://docbook.sf.net/el/refmiscinfo imediff2 | Note: meta version: no *info/productnumber or alternative imediff2 | Note: meta version: see http://docbook.sf.net/el/productnumber imediff2 | Note: meta version: no refentry/refmeta/refmiscinfo@class=version imediff2 | Note: meta version: see http://docbook.sf.net/el/refmiscinfo imediff2 | Warn: meta source : no fallback for source, so inserted a fixme imediff2 | Note: meta manual : no titled ancestor of refentry imediff2 | Note: meta manual : no refentry/refmeta/refmiscinfo@class=manual imediff2 | Note: meta manual : see http://docbook.sf.net/el/refmiscinfo imediff2 | Warn: meta manual : no fallback for manual, so inserted a fixme imediff2 | Warn: AUTHOR sect.: no personblurb|contrib for Jarno Elonen imediff2 | Note: AUTHOR sect.: see http://docbook.sf.net/el/contrib imediff2 | Note: AUTHOR sect.: see http://docbook.sf.net/el/personblurb imediff2 | Note: Writing imediff2.1 Of course manual edit of imediff2.1 is one way for the work around, this is not a nice situation. Also, this source has "VERSION = '1.1.1'" in the imediff2 command causing "imediff2 --version" while the upstream version of package is imediff2 1.1.2 (2007-08-18 00:48) This package list python-setuptools as Build-Depends, but I see no setup.py in the upstream source? Why? I see 2 upstream BTS patch proposals, but no responses can be seen. https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=302985&group_id=30544&atid=411376 https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=305136&group_id=30544&atid=411376 The SVN repo seems not used at all. The last commit is before the last tarball release https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/imediff2/debian/changelog?sortby=date&sortdir=down&view=log Revision 22 - (view) (download) (annotate) - [select for diffs] Modified Sat Dec 23 14:19:05 2006 UTC (10 years, 3 months ago) by elonen I wonder if it may be beneficial to start alioth collab-maint git repository (or github if you like that) so fixing these issues as upstream fix becomes more natural. Who exactly is the upstream now? Jarno Elonen? Kevin Coyner? Is there any better program out there which made the upstream loosing interest? I have been using this but wondering the situation... for how to contact the upstream. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.10.0-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information
