Re: [gentoo-dev] QA last rites for sys-fs/dd-rhelp

[Wernfried Haas]

Hi,

while this is a tool i never like to use, it's really hand in case you
have it around.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:23:30AM +0200, Diego E. Pettenò wrote:
> # Obsolete even by upstream standard, since version 0.1.2
> # is out since 2007 (and has a version bump request in bug
> # #223299 since May 2008);

Agreed.

>  uses ???obsolete??? tail/head
> # syntax (bug #159606, the warning has since been removed
> # from coreutils);

in dd_rhelp-0.1.2: # grep head dd_rhelp
        i="$(echo "$parsechunk" | "${head}" -n 1 )"
        firstline="$(echo "$parsing" | "${head}" -n 1)"
        firstline="$(echo "$parsing" | "${head}" -n 1)"
        lnb_save=$(echo $lnb_save | "${head}" -n 1 | cut -f 1 -d " ")

That seems to be the new syntax already.

> more importantly autotools are rebuilt by
> # a maintainer-mode-triggered check, but no dependency over
> # autotools, with or without the correct version is present
> # (bug #318487; automake 1.8 is nowadays not that common to
> # find installed).

Also from 0.1.2:
Installation (for dd_rhelp > 0.1.0)
===================================

   Installation process have been greatly simplified with version
   0.1.0 as
   it as been completely removed ! Removing the previous hassle of the 
   ./configure && make && make install normally reserved for
   languages that requires compilation.

   So for version superior to 0.1.0, installation is only a mean of a
   direct
   use of dd_rhelp, or a simple "cp dd_rhelp /your/bin/path".


So basically 0.1.2 should fix all those problems.

I'd do it myself if i were ebuild maintainer (which i am not), but
maybe someone could pick this up and just make a new ebuild for 0.1.2?
Seems to be a quite simple job and whoever is willing to save this
really useful tool will get a beer from me next Linuxtag :-)

cheers,
	Wernfried

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