Hallo Agustin, Sounds very very good :) Just an idea: Maybe a sample package would be helpful as a reference? (I can prepare one after my vacation)
Tobias (Btw, Should the snippet read --with aspell-simple?) On 27. März 2014 15:13:21 MEZ, Agustin Martin <agmar...@debian.org> wrote: >2014-03-07 12:35 GMT+01:00 Agustin Martin <agmar...@debian.org>: >> >> I have been working on these new uploads during this week and now >would like >> to have spare time for other things. Will try to find time to start >> ellaborating on those points. > >Hi, > >Had little time last weeks, so I only wrote a minimal draft for the >message. I did some testing on the symlinks stuff at experimental and >seems to work well, so it will soon be time to try that in real life. > >Here goes the draft, it is rather "light", but at least a minimal >starting point. > ># ------------------------ >Dear spellchecking dictionaries and wordlists maintainers, > >There were some recent changes in the system that may be interesting >for your package, after initial work by Andreas Beckmann and Tobias >Frost. Read below some reasons to consider upgrading your package and >use some of the new features. > >* aspell-simple: > > This is new feature intended to make things easier for people > maintaining aspell dictionaries created from pristine aspell > sources (created with aspell "proc" utility, as are those fetched > from aspell home page) that create nothing else than the aspell > dictionary package. > > In these cases, debian/rules can be made as compact as > > # ===== 8< ===== > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > %: > dh $@ --with aspell > > # this is not a GNU autoconf/automake build system > override_dh_auto_configure: > ./configure > # ===== >8 ===== > >* substvars: > > Added support for ${wordlist:Depends}, ${ispell:Depends}, > ${aspell:Depends} and ${hunspell:Depends} substvars. > >* ispell/aspell autobuildhash symlinks: > > Build structure and autobuildhash scripts have been changed to allow > those symlinks being no longer shipped with the package but created > by the ispell or aspell autobuildhash script. > > A list of automatically created symlinks is put in a .remove list > to make sure they are removed from postrm. Dangling symlinks are > searched for and removed at the trigger run (this last may have been > enough, but having .remove files does not harm). > > This way we no longer need to ship any dangling symlink with the > package. -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.