[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Upstream bitcoin changes to manpages and examples

[micah anderson]

Scott Howard <showard314 at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I just saw this [1] commit
>
> 1) We got our wrapper script from upstream, which has now dropped for
> being "stupid." I'm in favor of staying in line with upstream and
> dropping our wrapper as well. Any comments?

"dumb" was the word, not "stupid" and they said it was broken...

> 2) We took upstream's manpage and example conf file and copied it into
> the debian/directory. If upstream is maintaining it, why don't we just
> ship upstream's and stop maintaining a second one? There will be some
> lintian warnings about minus signs used as hyphens in upstream's
> version (that we have already fixed), but we can submit a pull
> upstream to fix that. They also don't have a bitcoin-qt man page, we
> can send them ours.

actually, I think I wrote that man page for our package because upstream
didn't have one. I submitted it upstream and it looks like they took it.

I think it is a good idea to stop shipping our own, and instead pull
request any changes we have.

micah