Dear Asheesh, Thank you very much for your effort and working on zekr. I tested your source package. It woks fine for me on Ubuntu Intrepid.
Unfortunately, our Debian sponsors were a little busy, so I couldn't resolve the problem myself. I really appreciate if you upload your package to Debian. P.S: The current version of zekr in Debian, 0.5.1, is very old. We have prepared a deb package for the latest release, 0.7.1, which is available here: https://launchpad.net/~zekr/+archive<https://launchpad.net/%7Ezekr/+archive> Thanks a lot, Mohammad On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Asheesh Laroia <ashe...@asheesh.org>wrote: > Hello Mohammad Derakhshani, maintainer of zekr, > > I'm working on improving package quality, and I found an old > release-critical bug filed against zekr: Bug #489501 is from six months ago. > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489501> > > I'm CC:ing the bug, as well as Mako (my usual sponsor; I'm not a Debian > Developer), as well as my account manager, Steffen. > > zekr depends on libxul0d, which has been removed in unstable. I spent a > lot of time looking through zekr and have prepared an updated package which > upgrades zekr to use SWT 3.4 and therefore not need the exhausting search > for MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME that you had, therefore not needing the libxul0d > dependency. It builds properly in a sid pbuilder and runs when built. (It > seems that with SWT 3.2 the libxul0d dependency is needed, hence the upgrade > to SWT 3.4.) > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/z/zekr/zekr_0.5.1.dfsg-1.1.dscis > the dsc link. I intend to ask Mako to upload this as a Non-Maintainer > Update (NMU) if you do not reply within a few days. I intend to stick to > the conventions at > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu for this NMU. > > I did jump ahead a little and already prepare the NMU, but don't be > offended by that; if you like my changes and have time to do the update > yourself, please just re-use them yourself and upload it yourself. > > If you do not have time to upload this update, then just say it is okay and > we will uploaded it as an NMU. If you do not have even time for that, then > it will be uploaded as an NMU anyway. You have about two weeks, as per the > usual process. > > My .dsc source package is available at > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/z/zekr/zekr_0.5.1.dfsg-1.1.dsc. > > The debdiff between the source packages is attached as interdiff.patch. > > -- Asheesh. > > -- > Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? > A: One. Only it's his light bulb when he's done.
