[Pkg-uml-devel] uml-utilities packaging status

[Mattia Dongili]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 03:20:30PM +0100, Stefano Melchior wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:45:35PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > what's the status of the latest release packaging?
> > I'd say that if we are quick enough and the software is not buggy we
> > have time for one more upload before the general freeze.
> > Otherwise it would still be nice to fix some issues with the current
> > package (lsb compliance popsout of my head immediately).
> indeed I tried to fix it and if you would like to seen the "possible"
> patch you can have a look at the attached "svn diff" output.

please attach plain text patches, otherwise it becomes difficult to
discuss the code.

> If it is ok for you, Mattia, I shall upload the changes.

It is not, LSB compliance is far from being complete, and your changes
are quite messy anyway. I don't understand why you reworked the
/etc/defaults/uml-utilities file sourcing (loosing default values
actually, this is a regression).
About LSB in init scripts see http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/

> > Stefano, how are things progressing?
> 
> since 20060622 won't be, for my point of view, included in etch, but in
> etch+1, the humfsify man page will be postponed.

why not? is it that broken? Apart from the umlfs thing (which wasa
already present but not installed byt default) there are mostly cosmetic
changes.
And UMLFS would be a really great thing to include into etch since we
can't expect people not to roll their own uml kernel later in the
release cicle  which could include a more mature umlfs support (if any
is needed, I still need to try it out).
I'm going to see if 20060622 is worth packaging later.

-- 
mattia
:wq!