Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christoph Haas wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 23:15, Bastian Venthur wrote: Hehe, I guess my package is relatively perfect (and uploaded) now ;) The $(CURDIR) is redundant in dh_installchangelogs. But I won't harass you with that any more. :) But one last question. What if upstream

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-17 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christoph Haas wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 14:59, Bastian Venthur wrote: [...] kde-icons-nuovext + http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kde-icons-nuovext.html + http://venthur.de/debian/nuovext/ closes: #324505 (Includes text files under /usr/share/icons) Notes for

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-17 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Bastian... regarding kde-icons-nuovext... On Monday 17 October 2005 13:10, Bastian Venthur wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: - it may be a matter of taste but I would not extract the upstream tarball right into the debian/... directory. Why not using that file as an *.orig.tar.gz.

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-17 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christoph Haas wrote: Hi, Bastian... regarding kde-icons-nuovext... On Monday 17 October 2005 13:10, Bastian Venthur wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: - it may be a matter of taste but I would not extract the upstream tarball right into the debian/... directory. Why not using that file

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Monday 17 October 2005 18:00, Bastian Venthur wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: Okay. Just keep in mind that you cannot change the orig.tar.gz which is currently in Debian. You can only provide new *.diff.gz files for the same upstream tarball. So it's more a todo when your upstream

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-17 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christoph Haas wrote: Yes, that sounds like a rather good idea. Doesn't look too ugly and tricks the version comparison system. :) If you don't know it already... see the man page for dpkg. There is a nice option called --compare-versions which allows you to find out whether a revision is

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Monday 17 October 2005 21:36, Bastian Venthur wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: I suggest you rather use dh_installchangelogs for that. Please see its man page. (That means also removing the debian/docs file.) The general problem here is, that upstream sometimes provides the filenames of

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-17 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christoph Haas wrote: On Monday 17 October 2005 21:36, Bastian Venthur wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: I suggest you rather use dh_installchangelogs for that. Please see its man page. (That means also removing the debian/docs file.) The general problem here is, that upstream sometimes

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-17 Thread Christoph Haas
On Monday 17 October 2005 23:15, Bastian Venthur wrote: Hehe, I guess my package is relatively perfect (and uploaded) now ;) The $(CURDIR) is redundant in dh_installchangelogs. But I won't harass you with that any more. :) But one last question. What if upstream provides a README, which want

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:47:26 +0200 Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - a lot of commented-out debhelper calls in debian/rules Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? Is not only cosmetics, is also disk space and bandwidth for holding useless stuff. -- Ricardo Mones ~ The

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
On 15-Oct-2005, Bastian Venthur wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: - a lot of commented-out debhelper calls in debian/rules Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? It's poor style, which more than cosmetics is also distraction and a waste of every reader's time. There is no downside to

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Bastian Venthur
Ricardo Mones wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:47:26 +0200 Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - a lot of commented-out debhelper calls in debian/rules Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? Is not only cosmetics, is also disk space and bandwidth for holding useless stuff. Ok

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:21:06 +0200 Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference in *bytes* is exactly 338 -- this is ~5-10 times smaller than the size of *one* single cursor contained in this package. Your package being big is no excuse to make it bigger without need to, better do

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Christoph Haas
On Saturday 15 October 2005 22:47, Bastian Venthur wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 14:59, Bastian Venthur wrote: I'm searching for sponsorship of my packages: crystalcursors + http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/crystalcursors.html +

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christoph Haas wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 22:47, Bastian Venthur wrote: - a lot of commented-out debhelper calls in debian/rules Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? Mostly. But the template is merely there as a superset of things you could possibly need. It doesn't do any

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ricardo Mones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:21:06 +0200 Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference in *bytes* is exactly 338 -- this is ~5-10 times smaller than the size of *one* single cursor contained in this package. Your package being big is no

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 22:47, Bastian Venthur wrote: Hmm, this is rather cosmetical, isn't it? Mostly. But the template is merely there as a superset of things you could possibly need. It doesn't do any harm to leave it in there. And I don't

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:53:11 -0400 Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ricardo Mones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:21:06 +0200 Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The difference in *bytes* is exactly 338 -- this is ~5-10 times smaller than the size of

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-16 Thread Bastian Venthur
Ricardo Mones wrote: I have lots of commented-out debhelper lines which sometimes later get used when upstream does add a relevant file. If you like things all prim and proper, that's fine, but please don't impose it on others. I think the one who should take a break is you. I'm

[RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi Mentors, I'm searching for sponsorship of my packages: crystalcursors + http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/crystalcursors.html + http://venthur.de/debian/crystalcursors/ closes: #328298 (Hot Point of Lefthanded Themes Wrong) kde-icons-nuovext +

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-15 Thread Christoph Haas
On Saturday 15 October 2005 14:59, Bastian Venthur wrote: I'm searching for sponsorship of my packages: crystalcursors + http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/crystalcursors.html + http://venthur.de/debian/crystalcursors/ closes: #328298 (Hot Point of Lefthanded Themes Wrong) Notes for

Re: [RFS] crystalcursors and kde-icons-nuovext

2005-10-15 Thread Bastian Venthur
Christoph Haas wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 14:59, Bastian Venthur wrote: I'm searching for sponsorship of my packages: crystalcursors + http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/crystalcursors.html + http://venthur.de/debian/crystalcursors/ closes: #328298 (Hot Point of Lefthanded