Initial packaging for Polari

[Brandon Snider]

New debian files for the 3.12 release.

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Brandon Snider
<brandonsnider at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi. Thanks for the input.
>
> I have made the changes to the packaging that you requested. The
> dh_girepository command worked, but the appropriate line wasn't in
> control. Also, new connections happen in -- what's it called, the
> "application menu"? -- the menu that sits in the top bar. Click that >
> "connections". Git is a bit further along than the most recent
> tarball, but it's not a world of difference at this point.
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi Brandon,
>>
>> I have finally looked at polari. Thanks for your work on it! The package looks
>> fairly good. I just have a few comments.
>>
>> * desktop-file-validate works just fine here, we have 0.22 which knows about the
>> new keys. Perhaps you're on an Ubuntu release with an older desktop-file-utils?
>>
>> * Files in src/lib/* are LGPL, this needs to be documented in debian/copyright.
>> Also remove the comments at the end of debian/copyright.
>>
>> * You probably want a dependency on telepathy-idle.
>>
>> * We wrap dependency fields in debian/control, one package per line. Makes it
>> easier to review changes.
>>
>> * The dh_girepository command doesn't seem to be working, as the resulting .deb
>> doesn't depend on the appropriate gir1.2-* packages (glib, gtk+, telepathy...).
>>
>> On 18/02/14 18:32, Brandon Snider wrote:
>>> I made an effort to package Polari, the new Gnome IRC app, which is
>>> rough at this point but still has 2 officially released tarballs. The
>>> packaging follows gnome-documents very closely. The two apps have a
>>> very similar list of installed files and whatnot. Since there are no
>>> reverse dependencies, everything is installed to one package. I also
>>> enabled a -dbg package.
>>>
>>> Debian packaging attached.
>>>
>>> Here's the current state of the app:
>>>
>>> * There's no built-in list of servers. They have to be manually added.
>>
>> How do I add a connection? Through gnome-online-accounts ? Maybe polari should
>> include a button to do that, right now the '+' button has 'Join a room' and
>> 'Message a user', both greyed out (as I'm not connected to a server). Perhaps
>> this and other stuff has been solved in git. The latest snapshot is pretty old
>> by now.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Emilio
>>
>>> * Autocomplete works.
>>> * Private messaging pings the Gnome messaging system.
>>> * If the userlist is active, there's no scrollbar in the message area.
>>> * There are no visible configuration options.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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