On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 03:16:14PM -0700, Olzhas Rakhimov wrote: > > Probably, I have to learn how to do uploads to experimental. > > it's just about using "experimental" instead of "unstable" in the > changelog :) > > > > * all of this said, why was the manpage removed from the upstream side? > > > > > The upstream switched to help2man to generate manpages from help prompts > > automatically. > > ok, then can't it be generated at build time= > > It becomes a problem with multi-arch builds (executable with '--help' isn't available). Indeed, help2man is a bit of work packagers, but it helps the upstream with keeping only single source of truth for its command-line options. I couldn't find an alternative easier way. > > Thanks for the review. There’s definitely a lot nitty-gritty stuff to > > learn for me. > > heh, worry not! > > So, about your new changes: > * "dh_install --(fail|list)-missing" are deprecated, as the manpage > report > I probably have an older version of dh_install. Is there alternative check for missing files? > * last night a new debian-policy came out. The website has yet to be > updated, but in debian-devel-announce (which I expect you to be > subscribed) you can find the relevant announcement with the changes. > Please update your package as well for it. > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields. > html#s-f-Standards-Version > I looked through the changes but didn't see anything relevant to my current packaging. I'll bump the version. Thanks, Olzhas
