On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:22:00PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:47:52PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:08:02AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > Please look at the beginning of this thread. Essentially, there is no > > > programm "htmlc" in Debian or in the tar ball, and all the > > > documentation I could read in the tar ball did not talk about where to > > > > Oh, ok, i forgot abouyt that one. i will investigate ... > > Any news on this?
Nope, but this WE i will have a look, promise. > > > get it. For the man page I don't remember the exact error, but the > > > only difference between the source and the final man page is one > > > substituted variable with the version. Essentially, we have two > > > options: > > > > > > a) Patch the source to remove the variable (I would do this, as the > > > man page was written for a certain version, but of course this > > > requires updating whenever a new upstream tar ball changes the > > > version). > > > > > > b) Run the source through sed or similar, i.e., automatically replace > > > the version with the version of advi we are building. This could be > > > achieved by a patched Makefile for the man page. Of course, this > > > might mislead readers into thinking that the man page always fully > > > applies to the latest version. > > > > That would be easy enough. > > I can implement this. > > > > If you could check the intent of upstream, that would be great, so we > > > could follow upstreams idea then. > > > > Indeed, to bad i didn't think of it yesterday, as i talked with Pierre Weiss > > about advi, but i have been out of touch of anything eail and packaging > > related since then. > > Any idea when you will clarify? I need to contact them again, which i didn't do. > > > I also fixed the spelling of the doc-base entry; since the manual is > > > only shipped as pdf at the moment, and doc-base does not support this > > > (if I see that correctly), I did not add an entry to the changelog and > > > renamed the file (svn mv). Once we have HTML-docs again, the file can > > > be renamed back; after this fix is included, the bug can be closed > > > manually, though. > > > > Ok. > > Given that most of the items are handled I'd like to know a rough time > frame when it will be transferred into the main trunk for actual > deployment in Debian. There are still some minor fixups to be done > (like, e.g., replacing the shipped style files with the Debians once, > improving the explanation about the missing mpeg-file, ...) but before > continuing I'd first now like to see things available in Debian. I can do a build this WE and upload, if you feel like it, you splitted the packages anyway, so it will need NEW handling anyway, which may or may not take forever. > If there are any show stoppers from your side, or questions, then > please ask. If you'd like to have a list of the items still on my > TODO, I can supply it, of course (but most items we've already > discussed in this and the previous thread). Just lack of time. Need to get the powerpc kernels in shape before d-i rc3, and this is highest priority for me now. But will find time this WE. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
