hold uploading pd-cxc, pd-ekext, pd-bsaylor, pd-markex, pd-mjlib, pd-sigpack, pd-smlib, pd-windowing, and pd-pdogg

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Mon Apr 25 16:23:19 UTC 2011


Hey IOhannes,

Thanks for fixing these bugs.  I'd appreciate it if you would talk to  
me as the maintainer of these packages before committing change and  
asking for them to be uploaded.  Please give me a chance to review  
your changes even.  pd-cxc, pd-ekext, pd-bsaylor, pd-markex, pd-mjlib,  
pd-sigpack, pd-smlib, pd-windowing, and pd-pdogg.  It would have been  
one thing if you just fixed the kFreeBSD build issue in the bug  
reports, then I'd say go ahead. But you also changed other things as  
well.

For example, it is not appropriate to change the Depends to Suggests.   
That will break things for some people.  So you can use these packages  
without having pd-libdir installed, but many others will see it as  
broken if pd-libdir is not installed since the library won't load.   
What's the problem with Depending on pd-libdir?  Its tiny, and builds  
everywhere, and only takes effect if you explicitly use features  
related to it.  Otherwise its just a file on the filesystem.

.hc

On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:31 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> some of the pd-packages have an FTBFS bug reported.
> i fixed all of those packages (i knew of), and would appreciate if
> somebody could upload the package, as given in the subject (i admit i
> don't type this entire letter for each of the packages).
>
> Other changes in the package:
> - - added (short) Vcs stanzas (if there was none)
> - - Suggest "pd-libdir" rather than Depend on it, since each of those
> packages can be used perfectly well without pd-libdir installed; the
> latter only adds a bit more comfort
> - - minor cosmetic fixes to the package description (to keep lintian  
> happy)
>
> i have NOT added myself to the uploaders, but i upated debian/ 
> changelog,
> so this gives some NMU-lintian warnings (which will go away if the  
> real
> uploader touches the changelog, so i didn't bother), but apart from  
> that
> the package appears to be lintian clean.
>
> the package has been build without problems in a pbuilder chroot.
>
> i pushed everything to [1].
>
> please have a look and eventually upload (or comment)
>
> fgmasdr
> IOhannes
>
> [1] git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/pd-cxc
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