Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I was surprised to see mksh in "recommends". No wonder Steve felt as he did after long day. It is late night here too. I understand this is required by cvs-switchroot written by the package maintainer and he certainly uses and loves mksh specific commands such as array variables and "print"

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Osamu Aoki dixit: >can not be dash. Just look at the source code of ash some day. >real command of cvs package to function, mksh is required and qualify as This is not open for discussion. >recommend. This part is due to lintian – I originally had no mention of mksh anywhere, but lintian insi

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I think there are some oversights and misunderstandings of the Debian procedure by the maintainer. Instead of arguing point-by-point, let me point out few helpful facts. We all are human and makes oversights. So please do not feel bad. Lintian is there to help maintainers to package better

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Osamu Aoki dixit: >Lintian is there to help maintainers to package better quality packages I use lintian all the time, thank you very much. I even used linda, back then. >But does Lintian really suggest to use "recommends" but rejects using >"suggests"? I do not find it so. This is Lintian out

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:03:22PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Osamu Aoki dixit: ... > Also here, I said I will do something. Don’t rush me, please. As a user, non-optimal dependency is quite annoying. Thanks for changing this. I may have responded a bit too strong on some parts of you

Bug#631110: cvs: package description adjustment may help user

2011-06-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Osamu Aoki dixit: >If you happen to worry library dependency, it may help adding I don’t think so, at least not yet. I couldn’t use the information. >Please remember SC#4 "Our priorities are our users and free software". > >At least you created an iffy user. I wonder what happened on all >securi