RFS: vim-latexsuite

[Franz Pletz]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:01:45PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Why you state that? Upstream tarballs are named with the plain <date>
> and I'm unable to find any explicit version elsewhere (e.g. the
> changelog uses svn revision numbers). Note that is very likely that I
> simply haven't looked in the right places ...

Oops, looking at the homepage I just realized I mixed up the versions.
Sorry, you're of course right. I've changed it.

> Gotcha! That's what I forgot mergeWithUpstream!!
> Still, the property was not set on the debian/ dir committed in svn
> while it should be. I've just set it, and added an upstream/ dire
> side-by-side with debian. Downloading there upstream tarball and naming
> appropriately (e.g. upstream/vim-latexsuite_0.20060325.orig.tar.gz) will
> do the trick.

I did it in my local working copy to test building with svn-buildpackage
before sending my previous mail but didn't commit it because I wasn't
sure what would be the right course of action. Thanks.

> Regarding whether to actually have the tarballs on the repository I'm on
> favor of it so that it will always be possible to go back to a
> particular version of the package, no matter what upstream will do in
> the future.
> 
> Other people tend not to agree to the potential large usage of svn
> space. I don't know what other people of pkg-vim think, thus for the
> moment I did not check it in.

Alright, I think we'll leave it that way for now.

> Since now I've been able to review the package I've some more comments
> on it:
> - why that lintian override for the gpl boilerplate? is it really
>   needed? it does not seem to me you have the gpl in the copyright file
>   ...

That's perfectly correct, I've removed it. Thanks.

Everything seems to work fine on my machine. I hope we are _finally_ ready
for an upload to close all those bugs. ;-)

Cheers,
Franz

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