[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs libpaper

[Roger Håkansson]

On 2010-03-18 17:36, Philip Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Roger Håkansson<hson at opencsw.org>  wrote:
>
>> Removed old packages, this is replacement ones.
>>
>> libpaper-1.1.23+nmu1,REV=2010.03.17-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
>> libpaper-1.1.23+nmu1,REV=2010.03.17-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
>>
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>
> Erm... i just noticed... maybe you shouldnt have the "NMU1" bit on it.
> that's a debian-ism. stands for "non-maintainer-update" usually. And
> the debian people are abusing their own use of it. ARrrg.

> but besides which, "nmu2" is out :-}

Which was why I chose to add nmu to the version number...
But I've checked nmu2 and it only contains Debian-related changes, so 
there is no need to repackage (other than changing the version number)

>
> Hmm.. actually, seems like the whole thing is a debian-ism. it doesnt
> have a proper 3rd-party home site?Ugh, i hate those kinds of things...
>

They explicitly say that the debian site is the home for this package.
Which isn't that strange since the original author seemed to be involved 
with debian for a long time.

> perhaps you should bug them to "encourage" they migrate it to
> sourceforge.

Well, I doubt that they will do it, I did see some posting about it and 
since the developers all are Debian-guys why should they care... Just 
gonna create more job for them.

> then there is no more "nmu" idiocy, and things will be
> cleaner for everyone.
> for example, bsd people apparently use this.
> As well as MacOS X ?!?!?!
> This is just... odd :-}

Even the OpenVMS dist lists packages.debian.org as the home ;)