Re: help wanted

Am Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 04:16:25PM +0200 schrieb Maarten L. Hekkelman:
> routine-update, that is a useful tool, too bad it nuked my rules file... ;-)

Really?  Usually debian/rules changes are only with confirmation of
the user.  Could you please describe in detail what happened.

> Perhaps I should file a bug report somewhere.

Yes, please do.

> Will upload the code, hopefully it will get past NEW soon.

Crossing fingers
    Andreas.

> Op 31-08-2023 om 14:40 schreef Andreas Tille:
> > Hi Maarten,
> > 
> > Am Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 02:15:33PM +0200 schrieb Maarten L. Hekkelman:
> > > I've updated the debian package for libzeep. There's a change in the SONAME
> > > so it has to go through new.
> > Thanks a lot for updating libzeep.
> > 
> > > The package contains the new code for libzeep 6 as well as new
> > > documentation. I used to use the boost docbook tools but those cause a few
> > > problems and besides, every kid on the block is moving towards Sphinx and
> > > ReadTheDocs these days. As an old man I like to pretend I'm hip as well.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, using sphinx introduces a lot of lintian warnings. Mostly related to
> > > the fact that sphinx documentation installs its own copy of jquery and a
> > > couple of fonts. My guess is that more packages in debian use sphinx so
> > > before I start to work around this I'd like to know if others have solved
> > > this 'problem' already. Or should I simply ignore the warnings?
> > IMHO these warnings ca be ignored.  On the other hand I'd recommend
> > fixing these:
> > 
> > I: libzeep source: out-of-date-standards-version 4.5.0 (released 2020-01-20) (current is 4.6.2)
> >    -> I'd recommend to run `routine-update -f` in your git clone
> > 
> > I: libzeep source: quilt-patch-missing-description [debian/patches/boost.patch]
> >    -> It would be great to have documented patches
> > > Another problem with my package is that the reprotest fails on salsa. The
> > > actual error it stumbles upon has to do with locales. It seems that
> > > something is fishy with the installation of locales on the machine where the
> > > tests run. The test code tries to create a locale namen nl_NL.UTF-8 and then
> > > checks if the name of the result is the same as the name requested to be
> > > sure it really got the correct locale. That check should not be required
> > > since if that locale is not installed, the C++ standard says an exception
> > > should be thrown but that doesn't happen, sometimes, recently, on Debian. I
> > > can skip those tests, but I'd like to know why they are failing. Not sure
> > > who to contact for this.
> > I need to admit I do not pay too much attention to reprotest tests on
> > Salsa.  While I perfectly agree that reproducibility is important I have
> > problems to
> > 
> >    a) read the log and draw sensible conclusions
> >    b) find out how to fix those issues
> > 
> > If nobody has a better idea I'd recommend to not make this a show
> > stopper and upload to new.
> > 
> > > A review of the current package of libzeep at salsa would also be very much
> > > appreciated.
> > You are welcome
> >      Andreas.
> > 
> 
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> Maarten L. Hekkelman
> http://www.hekkelman.com/
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