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Re: RFC: dvipsk-ja package (Re: dvipsk-ja: doesn't work under TeXLive2009(libkpathsea5))



Hi, thanks reply!

I revise new package, please see this url:

  http://www.gfd-dennou.org/member/uwabami/software/tmp/
   - dvipsk-ja_5.98+p1.7b-1.debian.tar.gz
   - dvipsk-ja_5.98+p1.7b-1.dsc
   - dvipsk-ja_5.98+p1.7b-1_amd64.build
   - dvipsk-ja_5.98+p1.7b-1_amd64.changes
   - dvipsk-ja_5.98+p1.7b-1_amd64.deb
   - dvipsk-ja_5.98+p1.7b.orig-jpatch.tar.gz
   - dvipsk-ja_5.98+p1.7b.orig.tar.xz

At Wed, 12 May 2010 20:42:20 +0900,
Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> wrote:
> 
>  - Debian revision is not correct, it should be 5.98+jp1.7b-0.1.
>    (or, if you can help to maintain it, consider to add yourself to Uploaders
>     and use revision as -1 :) 

Change version 5.98+p1.7b-1 and add Uploaders(p1.7b is upstream patch version).
But may I do whithout any permission? If wrong, I'll revise it.

>  - Your update would solve #562440 with TeXLive2009 based one, so please
>    describe it in changelog.

Added.

>  - Don't add debian/source.lintian-overrides without appropriate reason.
>  - README.jpatch, ChangeLog.jpatch and README-tl.txt are not debian specific
>    files, right? You would be better to move those files to appropriate directory.

I create stipped dvipsk soruce from texlive-bin_2009, and change
source format using multiple upstream sources. This package is lintian
clean now. 

>  - You can improve debian/dirs more

Ok. remove duplicate entry.

>  - Please add descriptions for each patch, especially its origin (URIs).
>    It is useful to track changes with upstream.

Ok. I add description in not debian-specific patches.

>  - Please describe more with your debian/control changes.

Add discriptions

>  - Does it work well? if so, please describe the steps to check it.
>    With testcase is better.

Hmm. It's bit difficult because of ghostscript can't handling japanese
PostScript now(I don't have any idea...Hmm...)

> >>  I think it's better to join texlive because it would also solve
> >>  Bug#562440 "dvipsk-ja: FTBFS: dpkg-shlibdeps: error: couldn't find
> >>  library libkpathsea.so.4 needed by debian/dvipsk-ja/usr/bin/dvips
> >>  (ELF format: 'elf64-x86-64'; RPATH: '')".
> >
> >I don't think so. AFAK this patch is l10n support, not i18n, so I
> >hesitate to join texlive-bin package...
> 
>  You don't agree with merge it to TeXLive2009 packages, not for
>  Bug#562440 issue, right?

Yes. 

>  Generally, we should avoid to upload different source packages with
>  same origin but some exceptions are there (i.e. xpdf and
>  xpdf-{c,j,k} packages). We should track and deal with security fix
>  in TeXLive if we wouldn't merged to TeXLive source
>  package. However, it's a kind of balance between costs and profit.

I think so. I don't know "ptexlive" activity in Debian, so I hesitate...
Now, I create dvipsk source stripped upstream texlive-bin_2009 source.

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