Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-19 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
> Guillem got enthusiastic about this and came up with this patch: > > https://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/tmp/0001-FIXME-Implement-source-stanza-sustvars.patch Are there any chances it will reach sid till the middle of september? If yes, I can wait for it to repace all my uses of dh-text. If not, I

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 08:51 +0200, Ferenc Wágner wrote: > >There's a typo in the man page patch (standa instead of stanza). The typo got fixed after he uploaded the patch. > It's good to have this function in the core, but doesn't that exclude > backports? There were dpkg backports in the past

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-17 Thread Ferenc Wágner
Paul Wise writes: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > >> That sounds like the best option. I've pointed the dpkg maintainer at >> your mail on IRC and asked for their thoughts on the matter. > > Guillem got enthusiastic about this and came up with this patch: > > https://www.had

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > That sounds like the best option. I've pointed the dpkg maintainer at > your mail on IRC and asked for their thoughts on the matter. Guillem got enthusiastic about this and came up with this patch: https://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/tmp/0001-FIXM

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 13:25 +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > There is another option. Manpage deb-substvars(5) mentions > ${F:fieldname} variable, but it works only for a limited set of fields > (like Source, Architecture, Section). For rest of fields, it expands > to empty text. Maybe this limitati

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-17 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2016-08-17 13:21] Paul Wise > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > * dh-text > > I wonder if a mechanism for this should go directly into debhelper itself? Probably, when it becomes more wide-spread? Right now, I can't prove that this functionality is wanted by anyone

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > * dh-text I wonder if a mechanism for this should go directly into debhelper itself? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-16 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
> I'd be more than happy to replace the custom recipes in my rules files > with your dh-text solution, it seems very neat. Just let me point out a > copy&paste mistake in the head of dh-text: > > # dh_text --- debhelper to create system users > > Please give it its own synopsis. Nice catch. Fixe

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-15 Thread Ferenc Wágner
Hi, I'd be more than happy to replace the custom recipes in my rules files with your dh-text solution, it seems very neat. Just let me point out a copy&paste mistake in the head of dh-text: # dh_text --- debhelper to create system users Please give it its own synopsis. -- Thanks, Feri

Bug#834313: RFS: dh-text/1.0 ITP

2016-08-14 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dh-text" * Package name: dh-text Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Dmitry Bogatov * Url : https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/kaction-guest/dh-text.git * Licens