There were bugs and upstream was not responsive. s3nt fr0m a $martph0ne, excuse typ0s On Apr 16, 2012 2:54 AM, "Tomas Pospisek" <tpo_...@sourcepole.ch> wrote:
> (OT: Very nice homepage you have there) > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Fusecompress was orphaned and is not in the archive anymore. You can take >> it up again as a new >> maintainer >> > > Before I seriously consider doing so: would you mind telling me why you > dropped fusecompress? I'm under the impression that both the package and > fusecompression itself are in a rather good shape? > > Thanks, > *t > > On Apr 16, 2012 2:21 AM, "Tomas Pospisek" <tpo_...@sourcepole.ch> wrote: >> Package: fusecompress >> Version: 2.6-3.1 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: patch >> >> Hello Ritesh et al, >> >> currently Debian's fusecompress won't compress files with lzma. To >> this >> effect, the changelog entry for version 2.6-2 contains the following >> note: >> >> "Drop liblzma-dev from Build Dependency since upstream hasn't done a >> new release with support for it. Will support lzma once upstream >> does." >> >> I'm not sure, could it be that you possibly missunderstood upstream >> at >> that time? >> >> I've re-added the liblzma-dev dependency to the package, and lzma >> works now. >> >> If you don't mind, I'll do a NMU. The respective patch is attached. >> >> On a related note: maybe it'd be a good idea to merge the Debian >> fusecompress repository with upstream's. I think (I haven't checked >> in >> detail though), that at least some of Debian's patches are included >> in >> upstream's git repo. >> >> Thanks, >> *t >> >> -- System Information: >> Debian Release: squeeze/sid >> APT prefers lucid-updates >> APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, >> 'lucid') >> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) >> >> Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic (SMP w/1 CPU core) >> Locale: LANG=de_CH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) >> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >> >> Versions of packages fusecompress depends on: >> ii libboost-filesy 1.40.0-4ubuntu4 filesystem operations >> (portable pa >> ii libboost-iostre 1.40.0-4ubuntu4 Boost.Iostreams Library >> ii libboost-progra 1.40.0-4ubuntu4 program options library >> for C++ >> ii libboost-serial 1.40.0-4ubuntu4 serialization library >> for C++ >> ii libboost-system 1.40.0-4ubuntu4 Operating system (e.g. >> diagnostics >> ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4ubuntu0.2 high-quality >> block-sorting file co >> ii libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.10 Embedded GNU C Library: >> Shared lib >> ii libfuse2 2.8.1-1.1ubuntu3.1 Filesystem in USErspace >> library >> ii libgcc1 1:4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1 GCC support library >> ii liblzma1 4.999.9beta+20091116-1 XZ-format compression >> library >> ii liblzo2-2 2.03-2 data compression library >> ii libmagic1 5.03-5ubuntu1 File type determination >> library us >> ii libstdc++6 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1 The GNU Standard C++ >> Library v3 >> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1 compression library - >> runtime >> >> fusecompress recommends no packages. >> >> fusecompress suggests no packages. >> >> -- no debconf information >> >> >>
