Florian Fahr wrote: [] >>> Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/ >>> texinfo.info... >>> Warning: Description contains package name. (texinfo.info) >>> Failed: Please correct the above problems and try again!
This is a case where maintainer mode is too zealous, and it would be useful to have a "level" of maintainer mode, with a lower level meaning "don't treat trivial warnings as errors". Example: I have a package "lie", where this maintainer mode anality pushed me to replace the one good and official package description "Computer algebra package for Lie group computations" by a rather less meaningful "Specialized computer algebra package". >>> Is there any way to fix that? >> >> Yes; don't use maintainer mode. :) Maintainer mode is for >> maintainers, not users. These warnings are minor packaging errors >> that won't affect building, but feel free to email the maintainer of >> texinfo about it. [] > But I would like to use Maintainer Mode, because I try to create a Fink > package for Mednafen (That's why I posted here ;)). Unfortunately I > can't test the build properly, because Mednafen depends on libsndfile1 > which depends on Flac which somehow depends on texinfo. > > Is there any other way to ensure that the package gets built correctly? > I could notify the maintainer, of course, but in the meantime until > he/she fixes the package, there must be a less strict method to check > if my package will build correctly. You can take the list of packages to be built as dependencies and build them without maintainer mode, and then use -m for your new package. Also, if -m is too strict, use at least --build-as-nobody in order to catch the common dangerous bug of installing files outside of the build directory. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
