[Pkg-electronics-devel] New gerbv release needs packaging

[Peter Clifton]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 21:46 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:

...

> Hi Gudjon,
> 
> Can you upload a new package without the patch 
> 01_fix_desktop.dpatch
> 
> The patch adds an "Education" category which is incorrect for this
> package. This errant category was removed upstream a while back - and
> has previously been patched out by my older Debian packages.
> 
> The control file already lists a "Recommends" on extra-xdg-menus, which
> upgrades the "Electronics" category to a "main" menu category.
> 
> See Debian bug #465275 for explanation of my previous patch to _remove_
> the Education category.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=465275


As a second thought.. perhaps it would be wise (with my Ubuntu Lucid
agenda) for this to be held off until after I get a yes / no on a
Feature freeze exception for the 2.4.0-1 package.

Unfortunately, the 2.3.0-1 package also has the errant "Education"
category re-added to it by a patch, and it might be awkward to justify
the change in case it introduces regressions where people don't have
extra-xdg-menus installed.


FWIW, and for reference.. I've had the "lintian complains about no main
category" conversation with other pkg-electronics-devel people in the
past, and the conclusion (which admittedly I pushed), was that it is a
warning which is safe to ignore if the package has an "Electronics"
category, and "extra-xdg-menus" is a dependency, or "Recommends:" for
package.


Oh - and something I completely forgot before, which was rude of me..
thank you for making the effort to get the new version packaged up!


Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

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