Changes to the 'rumor' package

[rosea grammostola]

On 7/25/09, Grammostola Rosea <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
> ryanakca at kubuntu.org wrote:
>> Hi,
>> These patches are fixes made to the rumor package (not yet uploaded to
>> Debian).
>>
>> I've patched the texinfo document at the request of Rosea Grammostola so
>> that
>> the generated info document installs correctly, eliminating this error
>> when
>> installing the package:
>>
>> No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
>> install-info(/usr/share/info/rumor.info.gz): unable to determine
>> description for
>> `dir' entry - giving up
>> dpkg: error processing rumor (--configure):
>>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status
>> 1
>>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>>   rumor
>>
>> This change depends on patches 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 09, 11 and the
>> following
>> change.
>>
>>
>> I dropped the postinst/prerm scripts since according to lintian:
>> Tag: install-info-used-in-maintainer-script
>> Severity: normal
>> Certainty: possible
>> Info: This script apparently runs <tt>install-info</tt>.  Updating the
>>  <tt>/usr/share/info/dir</tt> file is now handled automatically by
>>  triggers, so running <tt>install-info</tt> from maintainer scripts is no
>>  longer necessary.
>>  .
>>  If debhelper generated the maintainer script fragment, rebuilding the
>>  package with debhelper 7.2.17 or later will fix this problem.
>>
>> This change depends on the patch 07.
>>
>>
>> I also changed the version from 1.0.3b1-1 to 1.0.3~beta1-1. This will
>> permit
>> users to upgrade to version 1.0.3 when it is released since dpkg
>> interprets
>> version number 1.0.3~beta1-1 as smaller that 1.0.3-1 and interprets
>> version
>> number 1.0.3b1-1 as greater than 1.0.3-1.
>>
>> This change depends on the patch 10.
>>
>>
>> The rest of the changes are pretty minor and probably self-explanatory.
>> (Patches
>> 01, 08, 12, 13, 14). If you have any questions regarding my changes,
>> please
>> don't hesitate to ask. Also, please CC me in all discussions regarding
>> these
>> patches since I am not subscribed to the debian-multimedia mailing list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ryan "ryanakca" Kavanagh
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks Ryan!
>
> Good job. You can join the team if you ask me ;)
>
> I hope rumor get uploaded as soon as possible.
>
> Regards,
>
> \r
>

Reinhard or Free,


Could you upload rumor to Debian? Thanks