Bug#752716: ming: hardcodes /usr/lib/perl5

[Gabriele Giacone]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:51 PM, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:56:10 +0200, Gabriele Giacone wrote:
>> I already applied and reverted them a couple of times [2][3][4].
>> Unless we want to keep them till next upstream release (or git
>> snapshot), such changes (at the moment reverted) will have to be in a
>> debdiff. IMHO they don't deserve a patch.
>> What would you prefer?
>> (re-added changelog entry which should have followed reverts)
>
> TBH: I have no idea.
>
> What I would prefer is
> - in general that the team/main maintainer checks and uploads the
>   package since they hopefully understand what this is all about :)
> - or that we upload _now_ a package that is identical to -1.1 plus
>   the changes needed for the perl transition

Following ones are re-generated at each build, they shouldn't be there.

--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
--- a/docs/man/Makefile
+++ b/docs/man/Makefile
--- a/docs/man/Makefile.in
+++ b/docs/man/Makefile.in
--- a/perl_ext/Makefile.in
+++ b/perl_ext/Makefile.in
--- a/php_ext/Makefile.in
+++ b/php_ext/Makefile.in
--- a/py_ext/Makefile.in
+++ b/py_ext/Makefile.in

About following one, a comment just above says
    dnl -- Version info for libtool, to bump right after official releases
My guess is it's been added by building a git snapshot more recent
than 0.4.5, see [0] for example.

--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
-INTERFACE_REVISION=4
+INTERFACE_REVISION=5

And following one adds many manpages to dist_man3_MANS [1]. It's
probably useful but not present upstream (yet) [2].

--- a/docs/man/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/man/Makefile.am

Anyway, I'd really appreciate if Stuart, current maintainer, DD and
also upstream developer, jumped into the discussion and upload it
himself but seems quite unresponsive lately.
The private mail I've just forwarded to Debian Flash mailing list [3]
explains why I'm treating it as a team maintained package.
If that's not enough, no problem, NMU it as you prefer.

Thanks,

[0] https://github.com/libming/libming/commit/91fe6219a17edcdb0207be49afc66e8068208a54
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-flash/ming.git;a=commitdiff;h=e891bdb7f4ee3df4985357c0522b7608e5bd6f03#patch52
[2] https://github.com/libming/libming/blob/master/docs/man/Makefile.am
[3] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-flash-devel/2014-August/002460.html

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