On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:55:40PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > "Adam Borowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >The ITP is #213361. The package is foo-clean; the packaging is > >trivial (clean autotoolage). > What is this foo package you keep talking about? > I know of lintian, linda, puiparts, but not foo.
And pbuilder. What I mean, the set of automated tools to run is common to every package tested at a given time. Rare or specialized tools do exist, but I haven't heard of them being used around d-m these days. At this time, the fashion^Wcommon practice is to run: * lintian * linda * pbuilder * piuparts and there is hardly ever any reason to skip any of them, so it can be generally assumed that if a metasyntactic variable is used, it's used as an abbreviation for all four. This said, piuparts is pretty much a waste of CPU time for any package that doesn't involve daemons, system-wide config or system-wide cache -- ie, a majority of user-level software; however, CPU time is so cheap these days that there is no excuse to skip piuparts for us pre-DDs. Going back to kbtin, I'm not sure whether I can claim linda-cleaness if there's a change made solely to silence her. Linda considers _empty_ config.{sub,guess} to be outdated; I thus put some short placeholder contents just to make her happy. The empty config.{sub,guess} files themselves were a hack to work around a bug in an old version of automake, a bug that is long gone now. The files of course should be removed from the upstream tarball, but 1. it appears to be impossible to remove files from the source; and 2. it makes no sense to repack the upstream tarball just to get rid of an empty harmless file. Of course, if you're a sponsor, forget you've ever seen the previous paragraph :p The package is linda-clean, neither the hacks nor the reasons for them are present in upstream svn any longer, and this is everything you need to know :p Cheers, regards and what not, -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]