reopen 572966 retitle 572966 Packaging could easily be improved tag 572966 patch severity 572966 minor thanks
Hi again, ok. Point taken. I feel ashamed of the easy with which you solved the issues, and I'll try to upload something solving these issues. Reopening the bug to not loose the discussion & patch. Thanks for this patch, and the rest of your work, Mt. Le lundi 08 mars 2010 à 11:18 +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm a écrit : > Hi again, > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 09:37:55AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > You must be kidding, right? > > No, I'm not. Although I acknowledge what you're saying and of course > accept your decision not to remove the package. Note that for this exact > reason I didn't send a request to remove it to ftp-masters but a > proposal to you. I understand my proposal wasn't that welcome :) > > > This package works just fine and have no bug > > beside a request for removing someone from uploaders. There's a bunch of > > requests from lintian about the packaging format, but since the software > > works just fine (and does so since 3 years), nobody should need to > > rebuild it anytime soon, so I dont feel the fact that the rules do not > > follow the lastest stadards as release critical. > > Well, I disagree here. Of course this is not release critical but if you > took the time to actually update the package, you'd see that it makes a > few changes. Yes, the code compiles apparently the same way, but two > changes are simply managed in the resulting binary: > * actually put the examples in there (you just have an empty dir) > * doc-base is nowadays organized by triggers which makes the generated > maintainer scripts useless > > I attached what I would change if this were a QA package. After all it's > your call and I'm not judging what you do, but from a QA perspective I'd > strongly go for a few changes (and if we're at it, do all of them). > > > Moreover, I'm not very active, but I'm not completely MIA: I read debian > > mails, and react to important matter. Since I use flexml on a daily > > basis, if something goes wrong with that soft, I'll handle it. > > Noted. Thanks for clearing that up. > > > Finally, a popcon score of 100 is quite a huge amount given the fact > > that this is a developer only tool, targeting only C programmer forced > > to add some XML in their project, but not willing to add a depend on > > some "fancy" library. > > Sorry, I didn't notice this earlier. Popcon is often misleading but it's > impossible to by-hand check every single package that exact. :( > > > That is why I'm closing this bug report. > > Right. > > > Thanks for you QA work anyway, > > Mt. > > You're welcome! > > Hauke > on behalf of Debian QA/MIA -- Chaque fois que je regarde la télé et que je vois ces pauvres enfants affamés à travers le monde, je me mets à pleurer sans pouvoir m'en empecher. Je veux dire, j'aimerais bien être mince comme eux, mais sans les mouches, la guerre et tout ca. --- Mariah Carey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
