On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 23:02, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2009-09-21 22:31 +0200, Ryan Niebur wrote: > >> Hi Sven, >> >> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:03:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> I have some interest in this package as a prospective ncurses >>> co-maintainer, because ne is *very* picky about wrong terminfo entries, >>> and that helped me to discover that the xterm-256color terminfo had a >>> wrong backspace description. However, I certainly won't use ne as an >>> editor for any serious work, since I'm forever addicted to the One True >>> Editorš, and with that state of affairs I cannot really maintain ne. >>> >>> Today I've hacked around the package a bit, fixing the lintian warnings >>> and upgrading it to version 2.0.3 which has (limited) syntax >>> highlighting. What remains is to split the package (most of the stuff >>> lives in /usr/share, meaning that an arch-independent binary package is >>> in order), and to update debian/copyright. If anyone is interested in >>> that work, please mail me. >>> >> >> why not just upload it as a QA upload? > > Because it's not really suited as such -- new upstream release with lots > of changes, lots of changes in the Debian packaging as well; that's a > bit invasive for a QA upload.
?? QA uploads are just like any other uploads, but they are done in the name of the QA team. that's all. So please go ahead. > And I would need to find a sponsor, and these guys tend to be > (rightfully) rather picky about the issues I haven't fixed yet: > > ,---- > | % lintian -I ne_2.0.3-1_i386.changes > | I: ne source: quilt-patch-missing-description debian-Makefile.diff 20 secs to fix (included typing the commands) > | I: ne: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 2424kB 89% could not be an issue. > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:8 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:11 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:12 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:13 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:14 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:15 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:16 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:17 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:18 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz:19 > | I: ne: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/ne.1.gz 1 more > occurrences not shown ultra easy to fix (hint: you need a '\'). > | I: ne: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration 1-3 minutes to fix. > So I just offer my help to anyone who wants to maintain ne properly; if > that turns out to be nobody, it should be removed from the archive > anyway after some time. It's not like there's a shortage of text > editors in Debian. Please consider to fix those simple lintian warnings and then submit a RFS on debian-ment...@l.d.o: this way, your help would be much more effective. REgards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org