Re: Quoting Hell in Manual Pages, or lintian problem?

2021-11-22 Thread wferi
Marc Haber writes: > How would I quote backslashes in a manual page correctly? See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=966803#14: if you want to *emit* a backslash, use \e. > Currently I have the source: > > with '"' around each argument, each '"' > in the string converted to '\\"

Re: Source with different examples directories

2021-11-22 Thread wferi
Marc Haber writes: > I have a package which source tarball containst two examples > directories: > > src/examples > src/c++/examples > > Since both directories contain a Makefile, I would like to install > src/examples to /usr/share/doc/package/examples and src/c++/examples to > /usr/share/doc/pa

Re: Bug#997016: RFS: swtpm/0.7.0-rc2-1 [ITA] -- Libtpms-based TPM emulator

2021-10-29 Thread wferi
Seunghun Han writes: >>> swtpm - Libtpms-based TPM emulator >>> swtpm-dev - Include files for the TPM emulator's CUSE interface >>> swtpm-libs - Common libraries for TPM emulators >> >> Why do you deviate from the usual libswtpm-dev/libswtpm0 package names? >> Including the SO version in th

Re: Bug#997016: RFS: swtpm/0.7.0-rc2-1 [ITA] -- Libtpms-based TPM emulator

2021-10-24 Thread wferi
Seunghun Han writes: > * Package name: swtpm >Version : 0.7.0-rc2-1 Hi, The upstream version number should be 0.7.0~rc2 with a tilde instead of a hyphen to ensure proper ordering (as Lintian warns about). To do such transformations automatically, put something like this in the

Re: Help With debian/rules File Without Build Tool

2021-08-30 Thread wferi
Ryan McClue writes: > override_dh_auto_install: > cp program /usr/local/bin Unrelated to your actual question, but this won't work well. You need to install into debian/PACKAGENAME as if it was the filesystem root, that is: cp program debian/PACKAGENAME/usr/bin (after ensuring the directory

Re: Help with a syntax error from an autoreconf'ed configure script

2021-08-23 Thread wferi
John Scott writes: > binutils/libiberty/configure: line 2911: syntax error near unexpected token > `PLUGIN_OPTION' > binutils/libiberty/configure: line 2911: `GCC_PLUGIN_OPTION(PLUGIN_OPTION)' > > This seems bizarre. Why would autoreconf produce a script with a syntax > error, or is dash not rob

Re: config file name and format change

2021-02-04 Thread wferi
Marc Haber writes: > I would like to deliver a YAML config file with the package and have the > old file still supported if an old file is still there (optimally > printing a warning when starting up with old format). I would prefer to > avoid a wrapper script. > > My idea would be to have two di

Re: lintian question - no-debian-changes

2020-10-30 Thread wferi
Lajos Veres writes: > I am wondering to move the debian folder to a dedicated github > repository to have it version tracked. Or is there any more Debian > friendly place for these debian packaging repositories? Szia Lajos! I prefer Debian packaging branches to separate packaging repositories.

Re: Built a Debian package using the source code of another one

2020-08-13 Thread wferi
Hilmar Preuße writes: > the installation/compilation instructions for some proftp modules [1] say: > "To install mod_proxy, go to the third-party module area in the proftpd > source code and unpack the mod_proxy source tarball: [...] > This works fine. How do I do that for a Debian package? Afte

Bug#929467: RFS: tfortune-1.0.0 [ITP]

2019-06-05 Thread wferi
Andre Noll writes: > I also had to override dh_autoreconf for reasons explained in the > commit message. It isn't a packaging issue, I just wonder: why do you wrap configure? The usual approach to making it available is distributing it (and not requiring Autoconf to build the software from the d

Re: Understanding Git workflow around DEP-14

2019-03-12 Thread wferi
deb...@lewenberg.com writes: > Looking at DEP-14 I might have these Git branches: > > master > debian/master > debian/stretch > upstream/latest > > I understand that the Debian packaging files in debian/ will appear in > the "debian/*" branch, but my general question is: what is the > work

Bug#923050: RFS: pk2/1.2.1-1 [ITP] -- 2D Oldschool platform game where you control a rooster

2019-02-23 Thread wferi
Hi, Is the g++ dependency of the main game binary intentional? I built the game for stretch, it went OK (after reducing the debhelper compatibility level to 11, but that isn't a problem). The game starts, but I'm unable to select a map: the presented list is empty, though strace shows it finds t

Meaning of "Checking build-dependency (indep) on amd64" excuse

2019-01-15 Thread wferi
Hi, Could somebody please explain me the meaning of the "Checking build-dependency (indep) on amd64" migration excuse as seen on https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=pacemaker? I think I understand the rest, although I don't know whether the autopkgtest regression blocks migration indefinite