Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:03:22PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Osamu Aoki dixit: ... Also here, I said I will do something. Don’t rush me, please. As a user, non-optimal dependency is quite annoying. Thanks for changing this. I may have responded a bit too strong on some parts of your

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Osamu Aoki dixit: If you happen to worry library dependency, it may help adding I don’t think so, at least not yet. I couldn’t use the information. Please remember SC#4 Our priorities are our users and free software. At least you created an iffy user. I wonder what happened on all security

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I think there are some oversights and misunderstandings of the Debian procedure by the maintainer. Instead of arguing point-by-point, let me point out few helpful facts. We all are human and makes oversights. So please do not feel bad. Lintian is there to help maintainers to package

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Osamu Aoki dixit: Lintian is there to help maintainers to package better quality packages I use lintian all the time, thank you very much. I even used linda, back then. But does Lintian really suggest to use recommends but rejects using suggests? I do not find it so. This is Lintian output:

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I was surprised to see mksh in recommends. No wonder Steve felt as he did after long day. It is late night here too. I understand this is required by cvs-switchroot written by the package maintainer and he certainly uses and loves mksh specific commands such as array variables and print

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Osamu Aoki dixit: can not be dash. Just look at the source code of ash some day. real command of cvs package to function, mksh is required and qualify as This is not open for discussion. recommend. This part is due to lintian – I originally had no mention of mksh anywhere, but lintian