Bug#529869: should include perl module

2009-05-23 Thread David Bremner
At Fri, 22 May 2009 19:14:44 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] David Bremner wrote: http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=highlight.git;a=summary FYI: [...] Unpacking highlight-common (from .../highlight-common_2.9-1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error

Bug#529869: should include perl module

2009-05-22 Thread Joey Hess
David Bremner wrote: http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=highlight.git;a=summary FYI: (Reading database ... 272117 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libhighlight-perl 2.9-1 (using .../libhighlight-perl_2.9-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement

Bug#529869: should include perl module

2009-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
Package: highlight Version: 2.7-0.1 Severity: wishlist Highlight contains a SWIG definition that can be used to generate a perl module interface to the library, but this is not included in the Debian package. I would like to use highlight from perl code (specifically, ikiwiki), This patch is

Bug#529869: should include perl module

2009-05-21 Thread David Bremner
From talking to André Simon (upstream author), swig was broken in 2.7 and (confirmed by looking at the upstream changelog) fixed in highlight 2.8. So I guess an upgrade is the most sensible course of action (2.9 is current). My understanding from talking to Sandro Tosi is that Ayman welcomes

Bug#529869: should include perl module

2009-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
David Bremner wrote: From talking to André Simon (upstream author), swig was broken in 2.7 and (confirmed by looking at the upstream changelog) fixed in highlight 2.8. So I guess an upgrade is the most sensible course of action (2.9 is current). My understanding from talking to Sandro Tosi

Bug#529869: should include perl module

2009-05-21 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 21 May 2009 21:14:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: My understanding from talking to Sandro Tosi is that Ayman welcomes NMUs of highlight, but I have not heard that directly. I think I could put a package together, would you (Joey) be willing to sponsor? That'd be ok with me if