Re: GraphThing 1.3 released!

["David Symonds" <dsymonds@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/11/06, Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Symonds <dsymonds@xxxxxxxxx> (06/09/2006):
> > Thanks for your patience, all. Post here if you have any problems with
> > it.
> Are suggestions welcome? I guess so. :-)

Of course! They're all greatly appreciated!

> First: good news.
>
> Some friends of mine are setting up a complete dak on their box, and I'm
> allowed to upload there. So new Debian package are available for sid
> (unstable), architecture i386. I also built them successfully on sid,
> architecture powerpc without problems. We still need some time to see
> how to deal with multi-arch packages.

Okay, I have no idea what a "complete dak" is, but it sounds useful...

> Users can fetch the package adding this to their /etc/apt/sources.list:
>   deb ftp://debian.asyd.net/ sid main
>   deb-src ftp://debian.asyd.net/ sid main
>
> then update the package list, and install ``graphthing''. (Current: 1.3)
>
> I'll provide you with a webpage you can link to in some time, which will
> summarize what to do, etc.

Great, will be awaiting that!

> Here are some suggestions:
>  - adding license/copyright headers to source files. That'll ease these
>    kind of checks for: everyone, and also ftpmasters (the real ones on
>    debian.org are intransigeant on that kind of things) and I really
>    would like to see it included in Debian soon;

The GNU GPL 'COPYING' file is already included in the source tarballs;
is it really necessary to have a big block of text at the start of all
42 source files in GraphThing?

>  - the manpage, but you already know about that;

Yep, I'm working on it right now!

>  - fix 32/64 bits issue, as described below.

I think I've fixed that one problem. I'll try to make a 1.3.1 release
soon-ish with all these tweaks rolled in.

Thanks greatly for the reporting!


Dave.