[Pkg-parrot-devel] initial parrot 1.0 packages for testing

[David Nusinow]

Allison Randal wrote:
> David Nusinow wrote:
>>
>> Ok, I've attached a diff containing another set of fixes. This gets rid
>> of all but one lintian error, with the remaining one requiring a patch
>> to pbc_to_exe.pir's POD. The changelog diff should explain what each fix
>> is. I've also attached a watch file which is considered a wishlist-type
>> bug by lintian, and is generally nice to have. Once the rpath patch gets
>> decided on I think we're pretty well set to make an upload with these 
>> fixes.
>
> Thanks, applied with some changes in r37672. Specifically:
>
> - Collapsing changelog entries for new packages, or for changes that 
> were made and reverted (the changelog only needs to show changes since 
> the last release, not individual stages of changes within this release)


That's fine, I mainly wanted to make the changes clear to you for review.

> - Not applying the site-install flag change to the packaging, since it 
> hasn't been applied to Parrot yet and won't be applied in that exact form.

Certainly. I'm still not sure what to do about that patch and I'm happy 
to write an alternative one once some sort of consensus is reached for a 
good solution.

> It seems odd to run dh_installman for the libparrot-dev package when 
> there are no manpages to install. Why not just skip this:
>
>   dh_installman -plibparrot-dev

Yes, that's fine as well, I hadn't realized that there were no manpages 
in libparrot-dev.

 - David Nusinow