Bug#529914: ess: some debian/* changes to fix some small lintian warnings

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi,

I was out of the country for a few days, and while I saw your mail, I wanted
to be able to take a closer look.

On 22 May 2009 at 10:17, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
| Hi
| 
| There are currently three small lintian warnings for the ess package.
| One is regarding deprecated compat version for debhelper. I changed it
| to 7, and build depends on debhelper (>=7).
| 
| Please see the proposed changes in the debdiff attached. I also
| replaced in debian/rules the dh_clean -k with dh_prep. 
| 
| Unfortunaltely changing all these will then still let or produce a new
| lintian warning:
| 
| W: ess source: outdated-autotools-helper-file etc/config.guess 2004-01-24
| 
| This is only a proposal :-), thus smallest possible severity.

I think this is not productive. If you have extra time and energy, why don't
you fix _existing bug reports_ rather than creating spurious ones?  

The increase in debhelper compat and Standards-Version is (semi-)automatic
and would happen with the next ESS release and hence packaging.  Likewise for
dh_prep.

I don't meant to hurt your feelings here, but besides maybe the patch for the
homepage there is really little of added value that makes my life easier. And
you could have sent that a simple mail rather than relying on the heavy
artillery of the BTS.

You know you meant well, but in the grand scheme of things, this doesn't
really help me.

Sorry, Dirk

| 
| Kind regards
| Salvatore
| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: squeeze/sid
|   APT prefers unstable
|   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| 
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-t42 (PREEMPT)
| Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
| 
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| diff -u ess-5.3.11/debian/changelog ess-5.3.11/debian/changelog
| --- ess-5.3.11/debian/changelog
| +++ ess-5.3.11/debian/changelog
| @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
| +ess (5.3.11-1.1) unstable; urgency=low
| +
| +  * Non-maintainer upload.
| +  * debian/control:
| +    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.1
| +    - Add Homepage field
| +  * Bump compat version to debhelper version 7. Fix also the versioned 
| +    build dependency to debhelper (>= 7). 
| +  * debian/rules: Use dh_prep instead of dh_clean -k. 
| +
| + -- Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonaccorso at gmail.com>  Fri, 22 May 2009 08:31:14 +0200
| +
|  ess (5.3.11-1) unstable; urgency=low
|  
|    * New upstream release 
| only in patch2:
| unchanged:
| --- ess-5.3.11.orig/debian/control
| +++ ess-5.3.11/debian/control
| @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
|  Priority: optional
|  Maintainer: ESS Debian Maintainers <ess-debian at stat.math.ethz.ch>
|  Uploaders: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| -Standards-Version: 3.8.0
| -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0)
| +Standards-Version: 3.8.1
| +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7)
|  Build-Depends-Indep: texlive-base, texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-generic-recommended, texlive-extra-utils, texinfo, texi2html
| +Homepage: http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/
|  
|  Package: ess
|  Architecture: all
| only in patch2:
| unchanged:
| --- ess-5.3.11.orig/debian/rules
| +++ ess-5.3.11/debian/rules
| @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
|  install-stamp: build-stamp
|  	dh_testdir
|  	dh_testroot
| -	dh_clean -k
| +	dh_prep
|  	dh_installdirs
|  
|  #	cd doc ; $(MAKE) install PREFIX=`pwd`/debian/ess
| 
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