Changes to the 'rumor' package

[Grammostola Rosea]

ryanakca at kubuntu.org wrote:
> Hi,
> These patches are fixes made to the rumor package (not yet uploaded to Debian).
>
> I've patched the texinfo document at the request of Rosea Grammostola so that
> the generated info document installs correctly, eliminating this error when
> installing the package:
>
> No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
> install-info(/usr/share/info/rumor.info.gz): unable to determine description for
> `dir' entry - giving up
> dpkg: error processing rumor (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   rumor
>
> This change depends on patches 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 09, 11 and the following
> change.
>
>
> I dropped the postinst/prerm scripts since according to lintian:
> Tag: install-info-used-in-maintainer-script
> Severity: normal
> Certainty: possible
> Info: This script apparently runs <tt>install-info</tt>.  Updating the
>  <tt>/usr/share/info/dir</tt> file is now handled automatically by
>  triggers, so running <tt>install-info</tt> from maintainer scripts is no
>  longer necessary.
>  .
>  If debhelper generated the maintainer script fragment, rebuilding the
>  package with debhelper 7.2.17 or later will fix this problem.
>
> This change depends on the patch 07.
>
>
> I also changed the version from 1.0.3b1-1 to 1.0.3~beta1-1. This will permit
> users to upgrade to version 1.0.3 when it is released since dpkg interprets
> version number 1.0.3~beta1-1 as smaller that 1.0.3-1 and interprets version
> number 1.0.3b1-1 as greater than 1.0.3-1.
>
> This change depends on the patch 10.
>
>
> The rest of the changes are pretty minor and probably self-explanatory. (Patches
> 01, 08, 12, 13, 14). If you have any questions regarding my changes, please
> don't hesitate to ask. Also, please CC me in all discussions regarding these
> patches since I am not subscribed to the debian-multimedia mailing list.
>
> Cheers,
> Ryan "ryanakca" Kavanagh
>
>
>   
Thanks Ryan!

Good job. You can join the team if you ask me ;)

I hope rumor get uploaded as soon as possible.

Regards,

\r