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Author: Adam Borowski
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] initial elogind package ready / RFC
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 04:41:57PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote:
> On 2018-01-05 20:08, Andreas Messer wrote:
> > If anyone like to try it out, checkout branch suites/experimental
> > from https://git.devuan.org/amesser/elogind.git and build with
> > debbuild. This is my first package, comments are welcome.


(Note: in the comments below, my opinions are those of a Debian Developer
who's not active in Devuan. I'm these days the second most active package
reviewer, though, so probably they're worth some heed. I did not even look
at the package yet, though.)

> -> d/changelog
> elogind (234.4-devuan1) experimental; urgency=medium
>
> This package is native to Devuan, so it's version should be 234.4-1 or
> 234.4-1~exp1.


I believe that it's still better to mark it as Devuan specific, especially
that it's wanted for Debian as well. Less confusion this way.

> -> d/control & d/libelogind-data.install
>
> libelogind-data contains only l10n files, so there is no need for a
> separate package, merge libelogind-data into libelogind.


It's a bad idea to mix arch-indep files with arch-specific. Even worse, if
this library is to be ever used by programs other than elogind itself (and
if it were not, it shouldn't be a library), it would make it impossible to
multiarchize it.

> And I suppose there is no need to check for upstart, abandoned and
> unsupported afair in Dev1 sustem.


And in any maintained derivative.


(I'd comment more once I get around to looking at the package itself.)


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