[Debian-olpc-devel] lintian warning: sugar-irc-activity

[David Farning]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Ankur Khurana <ankur at seeta.in> wrote:
> sorry, dont know what went wrong, it wasn't sent complete.
>
> PS:- i will make sure that in future , if i edit any wiki entry , i will add
> commit message in future and i am sorry for the any inconvenience
> caused.Please also tell me if i am overposting on the list .

It is nearly impossible to overpost on a mailing list as long as the
threads are on topic and useful.  Which yours are.

david

> Regards,
> Ankur.
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Ankur Khurana <ankur at seeta.in> wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> well i in earlier mail what i tried asking was that what i did was
>> permissible or not , in  the sense that there are some rules to be followed
>> while testing and tweaking the package and in case i was violating any.This
>> was more about asking permission rather asking if it will work or not.
>>
>> PS:- i will make sure that in future , if i edit any wiki entry , i will
>> add commit message in future and i am sorry for the any
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:50:34AM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/27/2010 07:53 PM, James Cameron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, that would do it.  Large hammer for small nail.  However you could
>>>>> also restrict your chmod to only the affected files, and do it to the files
>>>>> prior to install.  Remind me where your debian/rules file is stored (git
>>>>> somewhere, if I recall correctly), and I can have a look.
>>>>
>>>> Git repo: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/sugar-irc-activity.git
>>>>
>>>> debian/rules viewable on the web:
>>>> http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/sugar-irc-activity.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules
>>>>
>>>>> I'm unsure of your meaning.  I don't know if these files need to be +x,
>>>>> but my meagre research suggests not.  You should do functional test on the
>>>>> package to make sure you can connect to an IRC server and have a
>>>>> conversation.
>>>>
>>>> - From what I can tell, they don't.
>>>
>>> James' point, as I read it, is that when Ankur does the packaging, then
>>> Ankur should verify that the packaging is sane - and an obvious test is to
>>> try use the package :-)
>>>
>>> It is good that you can support the assumed sanity of the packaging.  The
>>> point of actual testing still stand.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>>  - Jonas
>>>
>>> --
>>>  * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
>>>  * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
>>>
>>>  [x] quote me freely  [ ] ask before reusing  [ ] keep private
>>>
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