On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 12:35:19AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
Hans W. Horn wrote:
Alright,
Max Bowsher wrote:
No, still wrong. You didn't read what I said carefully enough.
You *need* to understand:
Filenames are expected to be EXACTLY:
NAME-VERSION-RELEASE.tar.bz2
NAME-VERSION-RELEASE-src.tar.bz2
I guess I never appreciated the subtle naming convention used for
cygwin packages. Honestly, my impression was that names go all over
the map. Fixed (I think).
+++ doxygen_1.4.2-20050410/doc/language.doc +++
doxygen_1.4.2-20050410/doc/translator_report.txt +++
doxygen_1.4.2-20050410/examples/example.tag
These files are touched during a 'make install_docs'.
Excluded offending diffs from patch.
Having got the superficial naming problems out of the way, I took a
closer look at the source packaging.
There were many issues - the most serious being that the source
package did not even contain the Cygwin specific readme at all - and
many minor deficiencies related to using a home-grown build script,
rather than the tried-and-true cygwin template.
I am sorry, but the conclusion I came to was that it would be less
effort for me to produce my own packages of doxygen, based on the the
generic-build-script, than to assist in getting these packages up to
a good-to-go status.
Accordingly, I hereby ITP doxygen myself:
Setup.exe installation site:
http://unicorn.robinson.cam.ac.uk/~mob22/cygdoxygen/
I've waited several days to respond to this because I wanted to make
sure that I was in the proper emotional state and didn't just fire
off a knee-jerk reaction.
Nevertheless, I remain appalled by this turn of events. I saw nothing
in Hans' email which indicated that he's unwilling to be cooperative
about packaging problems so I see no reason to pull the package from
him. Hans is not the first person to have to go through a moderate
amount of pain before getting the packaging right and if the biggest
complaint of his source packaging is that it doesn't contain the
cygwin README, then that is not a big deal.
I don't know how to resolve this situation but I do know for sure that
neither Corinna nor I are going to "reward" someone by making them a
package maintainer after essentially publicly insulting another
volunteer.
Hans, this is still yours if you want it. Otherwise, MaxB has
disqualified himself from doxygen package maintainership, so I guess
we're in the market for a maintainer again.
cgf