Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-30 Thread Norwid Behrnd
@Lauren Because of an earlier post by you, I assume you prepare a package which eventually requires a sponsorship by a DD. If this were true, the upload to https://mentors.debian.net/ would allow you to share an intermediate version to document your current progress -- both to replicate

Re: bring a newer version of a package into stable (nsis-3.09-1 into Debian "bookworm")

2023-12-22 Thread Norwid Behrnd
Hello, I recommend the following two-fold approach. - For one, if `nsis` refers to this entry in the package tracker https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nsis prepare a new version of the package to enter branch testing (i.e. Debian 13/trixie) with as few as possible warnings e.g., by lintian and no

Re: RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?

2023-11-15 Thread Norwid Behrnd
Hello, I would like to add an observation tangential to your points A), explanation to new contributors, and B) potentially advise against the use of Proton Mail for Debian work to yield a «no, Proton Mail can be useful for some Debian work». In December 2022/January 2023, I found a sponsor for

Re: reference Debian package of multiple binaries sharing one man page

2023-11-13 Thread Norwid Behrnd
On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:41:12 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: > > Oh, indeed, you're right and I misread that. So I think you can just use > symlinks, period, and not worry about .so (although you have to handle > nodoc builds correctly). > Well, one file with a list like

Re: reference Debian package of multiple binaries sharing one man page

2023-11-13 Thread Norwid Behrnd
Hello, On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 14:08:49 +0100 Alexander Sulfrian wrote: > > You will need a file mdl.1 with the following content: > > .so man1/markdownlint.1 > > and markdownlint.1 should be the normal manpage without a .so line. > This logic provides exactly the relay I sought out. Thanks a

reference Debian package of multiple binaries sharing one man page

2023-11-10 Thread Norwid Behrnd
Hello, I seek a maintained Debian package which provides multiple binaries sharing one man page in common -- do you know an example? Recently, I started to upgrade the Debian package about `markdownlint`,[1] a syntax checker. The initially packaged version 0.12.0 provided a binary of name