On Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:23:54 +0000, Ralph Corderoy writes: >> Is anyone here packaging nmh as part of a .deb file in the process of >> testing? > >Alexander Zangerl is Debian's packager in the past; I'm CC-ing him.
...and i still am, but i was out of town w/o net access over the holidays. i'll package 1.8 within a week or so. >I assume if we grabbed the debian directory, e.g. >https://sources.debian.org/src/nmh/1.7.1-12/debian/, then we could have >a stab at building the .deb on a Debian machine; I have one to hand. generall you would have to grab the *.dsc and the *.debian.tar.xz, besides the actual upstream (= your) tarball. the combo of the above is guaranteed (by debian policy) to create pretty much exactly the deb in the debian distro (except for file signatures). >I've had a look at the Lintian output and fixed a spelling mistake. >It also says debian/control could do with a Homepage definition: >Alexander, it's https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ > >That README also mentions a quick overview of what's shipping what >version: > > A useful overview of what third parties are shipping which release > is available at https://repology.org/project/nmh/versions with a > quick overview on the Badges tab which shows > https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/nmh.svg. > sure can do; i'll have a look at those as part of packaging 1.8. -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 2FCCF66BB963BD5F + https://snafu.priv.at/ Programming is like sex: One mistake and you're providing support for a lifetime. -- ?
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