[Pkg-ime-devel] RFS: ibus-typing-booster -- [second try]

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:22:25PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_home at nifty.com> writes:
...
> > When ever ask sponsor, it is good idea to post full information.
> 
> Sorry for not mentioning the URL, I just mentioned its in the team
> repository (a habbit carried from other team I interact with).

OK I see.
 
> Sorry for not asking earlier but what is the way to ask for sponsor in
> this team? Do I need to upload to mentors and give the URL or upload to
> team repository and give its URL?

Enough information for us not to do second guessing.  No particular
rule.  Just common sense.  Usually people putting package to mentor tell
us URL to *.dsc file.  For your case:

url = ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-ime/ibus-typing-booster

this should be OK.  It is quite obvious from there.

> I want to make one thing clear I really don't want to break the
> tradition of the team, if some one is willing to take care of this
> package I will be happy to convert it to dh and give it over. Please let
> me know on this.

If you upload it to archive, you are the primary the one to take care.
We are very thin in resource.  That does not mean we will not step in.
We do our best though.
 
> This is not really the right place to discuss this, but Jonas has some
> different point on your thoughts and I agree with him, if you are
> interested to take up this discussion I would suggest join us on
> build-common-hackers at list.alioth.debian.org.

I do not think I qualify to discuss.  That was more of my sentiment to
explain why I chose dh.  I know GNOME team uses CDBS.

Let's discuss more important thing.

Lintian
W: ibus-typing-booster source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.4 (current is 3.9.5)

Also it is not needed but here is an idea.

I am no perl hacker so the one liner script got my attention.

The scalability of "scriptlist" to adopt new languages as upstream
accumulates may be a concern.  scriptlist=... line ... requiring
constant care.  But as I see:

 $ sed -n 's/^description.* for \([^.]*\).*/\1/p' hunspell-tables/*

This extracts most languages.  With a bit of massaging to patch
description of *.conf in consistent style, ... that what I though maybe
an idea if you find time later.

Anyway, this is certainly serious CDBS package which I can not touch.
It is too convoluted for me to dig in.  But it looks generally in good
shape.

Osamu