Il giorno ven, 26/02/2010 alle 00.02 +0100, Steffen Möller ha scritto: > Hello, > > Stefano Canepa wrote: > > Il giorno lun, 22/02/2010 alle 17.52 +0100, Steffen Moeller ha scritto: > >>> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > >> the diff.gz has many *.cpp files in, and there are both Makefile.in and > >> Makefile, configure and configure.in. I have not looked at it in more > >> detail, but could there be a way that you reduce the length of the diff.gz > >> to something one can oversee with the eye? The current version has 37522 > >> lines, which given all the *.cpp files in are just too tough for a sponsor > >> to check through. > > > > I checked the diff.gz, this is the result of the need to cut out all > > apache_13 module code. I tried to convince upstream author to drop this > > code in next release but I did not succeded. We agree to delete all > > files lintian complains about. > > If you would like to write to upstream author to convice him to delete > > useless code in future release please do and I'll be gratefull to you > > for your favour. Tomorrow I'll ask again Mandriva gsoap maintainer (a > > collegue of mine) to ask for the same thing even if he told me that > > inclusion of old apache code is not a problem in his package. > > I cannot tell why some directory you need to remove. I just want an > interpretable diff.gz :) What happens if you take a brand new source > tree and just move the current debian folder over to that one. Will it > produce a working package? If so, then I suggest to go for that approach > and leave old sources in. I produced a new package. It's on mentor.d.n. Could you take a look at it? > >> A file debian/README.source should explain all the differences done to the > >> source tree for its inclusion to Debian. I know, as a past NMUer, that the > >> package already wasn't in the best of all possible shapes when you took it > >> up. If you could give it some more love to make the diff.gz nice to read, > >> then this would be real helpful. > > > > I'm going to write more details in my README.source. It took me a long > > time to read the diff, you're right it's quite impossible to read. > > Colleagues of mine use gsoap as a dynamic library. Are you also > providing dynamic libraries? Well, I'll see :) I'll try to add them. Bye Stefano -- Stefano Canepa aka sc: sc@linux.it - http://www.stefanocanepa.it Three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience and hubris. Le tre grandi virtù di un programmatore: pigrizia, impazienza e arroganza. (Larry Wall)
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