[Python-apps-team] mercurial spec broken

[Vincent Danjean]

Martin Geisler wrote:
> Vincent Danjean <vdanjean at debian.org> writes:
>> While I am at it, there are three patched in the Debian package that
>> can be interesting upstream:
>> - one that rewrite the doc for zeroconf (proposed by a user)
> 
> Please send such patches to us! :-) We obviously want everybody to
> benefit from better documentation.

  You can find it here (proposed_upstream__correct-zeroconf-doc):
http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/mercurial/1.4.1-1

  As a side note, I know I do not take enough time to fully handle the
mercurial package. I someone is interesting in helping the Debian packaging,
please, contact me. A first thing would be to go through the Debian BTS
and see for each bug if it has been corrected upstream, it is forwarded
upstream, or if it is really Debian specific. Vernon Tang helps me to
package new releases but we lack time to correctly discuss with upstream
of small bugs.

>> - one that remove the shangline from modules that are used as modules
>>   and not as plain programs (ie not installed in /usr/bin nor invoked
>>   directly)
> 
> I see #! in lsprof.py and simplemerge.py. I think it's been left behind
> because those files have an upstream version too, and so it's nice for
> us to change as little as possible in them.

Ok, this seems a good reason. If you do not change this in the next release,
in my next upload, I will rename this patch as deb_specific_... with the
reason you just gave me in comment.

  Regards,
    Vincent

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