Re: Bug#1073267: RFS: gpp/2.28-2 [ITA] -- general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax

Leandro Cunha Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:38:24 -0700

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:28 PM Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Leandro,
>
> First, thank you for your work on this package.
>
> On Friday, June 21, 2024 7:07:23 AM MST Leandro Cunha wrote:
> > I quote about Lintian's error (acute-accent-in-manpage) in this part.
> > There is a huge list of packages with this information and it seems to
> > me that it would even be a false positive until it is validated that
> > there really is a problem with this. But it seems to me that this
> > would be ignored for most packages due to the huge list I see in UDD.
> > See https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag.cgi?tag=acute-accent-in-manual-page
>
> This is a relatively new Lintian check  (originally introduced in 2020 and
> recently updated).  There are currently a large number of packages failing.  I
> would expect that to drop way down as newer version of those packages fix 
> their
> man pages.
>
> If I were looking at sponsoring this package, I would not require that this
> lintian info tag be fixed for this release as long as you were committed to
> working on it for the next one.


Exactly, there are a large number of packages with failures due to
this error and this was confirmed last night after sending the email
about this in my response.
This can be seen here:
https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag.cgi?tag=acute-accent-in-manual-page

I'm still rooting for Lintian to improve and I hope that still
happens. A very important tool for the entire community to carry out
packaging reviews.

> > A review with the command below and two review tools on this file done
> > last night found problems in the copyright file long before the emails
> > about it were sent here. And I've already contacted the DD who
> > reviewed the last change to talk about it and see if he can help me
> > change it. I await responses and a new version of this file is ready
> > for review. The package had undergone a license big change causing
> > changes to the file in a version that was sent in 2018 and since then
> > there have been no changes to the licensing updating only years as was
> > changed for 2023 in a version from last year.
> > egrep -sriA25 '(public dom|copyright)' | less
>
> It appears that the problem with the copyright file was missed in the previous
> review, which is easy to do.  However, now that it has been discovered, it
> should be resolved before the next upload.
>
> This is a blocking issue that needs to be addressed before the package can be
> sponsored.

At the moment I recommend that no one become a sponsor until I finish
reviewing this. When the MR is ready, it will no longer be a draft.
But please wait for my reviews.

Thanks!
-- 
Cheers,
Leandro Cunha

Re: Bug#1073267: RFS: gpp/2.28-2 [ITA] -- general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax

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