On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Florian Fahr wrote:
Hello.I just found the following problem which prevents packages like flac to build properly when running in Maintainer Mode (related to the problem which I flooded the IRC channel with a few hours ago). Anyway, I get the following error:Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/ texinfo.info... Warning: Field "sourcedirectory" contains package version. Use %v instead. (texinfo.info)Failed: Please correct the above problems and try again! When building the package itself directly, I get this:Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/ texinfo.info...Warning: Description contains package name. (texinfo.info) Failed: Please correct the above problems and try again! Is there any way to fix that?
Yes; don't use maintainer mode. :) Maintainer mode is for maintainers, not users. These warnings are minor packaging errors that won't affect building, but feel free to email the maintainer of texinfo about it.
Now, there is nothing wrong with using maintainer mode regularly if you want to help notify maintainers of validation warnings, but in general don't use it. There are, unfortunately, quite a few packages that will fail validation; often they're packages with no active maintainer.
Daniel
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