Re: slrn 0.9.9 release plans (was Re: score-color patch and 0.99x slrn)

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, if you haven't aready done so, I encourage you download and start
> testing the latest version that is in the svn repository.  And of
> course report any bugs that you experience.

/usr/bin/make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/slrn
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/joerg/svn/slrn'
cd src; /usr/bin/make install
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/joerg/svn/slrn/src'
/home/joerg/svn/slrn/src/objs/chkslang slrn 20000
slrn created in /home/joerg/svn/slrn/src/objs
/usr/bin/install -c  -m 755 -s /home/joerg/svn/slrn/src/objs/slrn /home/joerg/svn/slrn/debian/slrn/usr/bin
/usr/bin/install -c  -m 755 -s /home/joerg/svn/slrn/src/objs/slrnpull /home/joerg/svn/slrn/debian/slrn/usr/bin
../autoconf/mkinsdir.sh /home/joerg/svn/slrn/debian/slrn/usr/bin
mkdir /home/joerg/svn/slrn/debian/slrn/usr/bin
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/joerg/svn/slrn/debian/slrn/usr/bin': File exists
make[2]: *** [installdirs] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/joerg/svn/slrn/src'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joerg/svn/slrn'

I fixed it by transposing installbin and installdirs in the conditions
of the install target.

· Why don't you build slrnpull when configure was called with
  --with-slrnpull?
· What happend with the contrib stuff? The old Makefile supported
  install-contrib. How to install the contrib stuff now?
· make install doesn't install the manpage of slrnpull
· Is it possible to set the path to inews while the binary is not
  available? The current Debian patch looks a little bit ugly:

--- slrn~/autoconf/configure.ac	2007-11-05 00:07:53.000000000 +0100
+++ slrn/autoconf/configure.ac	2007-11-05 00:11:42.780225297 +0100
@@ -97,7 +97,9 @@
     [SLRN_HAS_INEWS_SUPPORT], 0)
 if test "x$enable_inews" = xyes ; then
   dnl# find inews
-  AC_PATH_PROG(INEWS, inews, no, $PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin)
+  dnl always on for debian
+  dnl AC_PATH_PROG(INEWS, inews, no, $PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin)
+  ac_cv_path_INEWS=/usr/bin/inews
   if test "x$ac_cv_path_INEWS" != xno; then
       dnl# AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SLRN_INEWS_COMMAND, "$ac_cv_path_INEWS -S -h")
       AC_SUBST(SLRN_INEWS_COMMAND, "$ac_cv_path_INEWS -S -h")

· The Debian package includes the following patch. Is it correct? Is it
  useful for you? Would you apply it?

--- slrn-0.9.8.1pl1.orig/doc/manual.txt	2004-11-16 22:12:43.000000000 +0100
+++ slrn-0.9.8.1pl1/doc/manual.txt	2005-10-03 09:36:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -4684,9 +4684,9 @@
 
 
   Forward (mail) the current article to someone. All headers are
-  included and the subject is prepended with ``Fwd:''. If you want, you
-  can edit the e-mail before it is sent (to add a comment or cut down
-  the article to the relevant part).
+  included when using the argument "1" and the subject is prepended with
+  ``Fwd:''. If you want, you can edit the e-mail before it is sent (to
+  add a comment or cut down the article to the relevant part).
 
 
 

· Do you know http://bugs.debian.org/375015 http://bugs.debian.org/282550 ?
· make distclean doesn't remove src/config.h src/slrnfeat.h
  po/Makefile.in po/Makefile po/POTFILES po/stamp-po
· What happend with /etc/news/server? slrn 0.9.8.1pl2 tries to read it to
  find the server name.
· The .gmo files aren't rebuild if they do not exists while running make
  install.
· Why do you the macros install in /usr/lib? They are architecture
  independent. And former their subdir was macros. Is this change intended?

This version of slrn encodes the From line incorrect. I sends this line
to the server:
=?UTF-8?Q?From:_J=C3=B6rg?= Sommer <[email protected]>

Bye, Jörg.
-- 
Wer eher stirbt ist länger tot.
    	 	    	       			(Un B. Kant)

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