[Pkg-crosswire-devel] bible-kjv package update

[Jonathan Marsden]

Roberto and team,

While looking at the (long!) list of packages that FTBFS in Ubuntu
Karmic, I've "discovered" another Debian bible package that needed some
attention, called bible-kjv.  This is apparently a native Debian package.

It is a rather basic text-mode KJV reader.

Anyway, I went ahead and fixed the FTBFS issue, and then spent far more
time on getting rid of most of the lintian warnings when building it in sid.

ISSUES:

(1) For now I called my updated package 4.24, since the last one was
4.23.  I added myself to Uploaders: in debian/control.  Should I instead
have created an NMU?

(2) There is one lintian warning remaining which is rather strange.  It
says:

W: bible-kjv: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/bible.1.gz
 Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

Yet the bible.1 file looks fine, is apparently plain USASCII text, and
running what lintian -i recommends to test this:

  LANG=C MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -l bible.1 >/dev/null

produces no warnings.  Can I safely ignore this warning?

My work so far on this is at

  dget http://crosswire.org/~jmarsden/bible-kjv_4.24.dsc

Comments and suggestions welcome.  I'd like to get this into Debian
unstable once the two issues above are dealt with.  Then it can be
synced into Ubuntu Lucid.

Thanks,

Jonathan