On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 12:47:03AM +0000, Debian Installer wrote: > Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
I uploaded ceferino yesterday. I made the changes I described, except for the library linking part, which appears to be a bug in dpkg-shlibdeps (the libraries mentioned were actually used AFAICS). I made some changes to configure.ac to make it possible to regenerate configure.[1] I did this directly in the file, and not with quilt. I'm not sure if this was a good idea, so I'll describe my thoughts. If they weren't right, we should correct it in the next upload. :-) - The package doesn't compile without the changes. A user who uses apt-get source ceferino and then starts changing and building things the non-Debian way would need to apply the patch to succeed.[2] - The repository probably can't hold the changes. I haven't uploaded the new version yet (to the repository), and I'm not sure how to add changes outside debian/ there, if at all. - I wanted to do the upload before the weekend, because I don't have time during the weekend. I don't know how to use quilt yet, and it was late so I didn't have time to learn it. Not a very good argument, but I did think about that, too. ;-) Any comments are welcome. Thanks, Bas [1] This is one of the reasons I want the autotools to be run at build time. If special arguments are needed, I want the maintainer to spend an hour on figuring them out, not the user who wants to edit his Makefile.am. [2] This is only true if the user is changing configure.ac or Makefile.am, but I don't want to treat them specially. The user should as easily be able to change those as any other source file. -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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