Upload of Mame and Mess 0.144

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:18:32PM +0100, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
> Hello Team !
> I have updated the copyright file for Mame and Mess and the package
> seems to be in good form for an upload, with lintian and me being mostly
> happy :P
> Please remember that mame-tools is now built from the mess source package.

Great!

> Jordi I have seen you switched the section of the virtual packages to
> the brand new metapackages section, wouldn't have been oldlibs more
> appropriate ?

No. oldlibs for empty, transitional metapackages is abusing oldlibs and
apparently ftpmaster agrees with me. I asked them on IRC the day the
metapackages section was introduced and was told that yes, this is one of
the uses intended for the new section.

oldlibs would be GTK+1, Qt 3.x, etc., not every transitional metapackage.
Lintian didn't help at all here, I know, but lintian isn't always right.

> Would you also agree to advocate me on the debian-newmaint
> mailing list as a or do you think it is too early ?

Wow, I forgot to do it already. It's _not_ early at all, it's just I'm
really horribly busy and some things get off the radar. :)


-- 
Jordi Mallach Pérez  --  Debian developer     http://www.debian.org/
jordi at sindominio.net     jordi at debian.org     http://www.sindominio.net/
GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/