[be] man pages, tags, and packages

[Jonathan Marsden]

Teus Benschop wrote:

> I hadn't realized that the man pages were needed to satisfy lintian
> tests. In my local git repository I've added a couple of man pages.
> Hopefully these are enough to satisfy lintian. Will be pushed into the
> public repository within half a day.

Got them, thanks.  Some minor things to edit when you have a chance:

1) Section number should be 1, not 8 (8 is for system admin tools, see
man man).  This also means renaming them to be bibledit-whatever.1 not
bibledit-whatever.8 of course.  The same is true for the bibledit man
page itself.

2) Edit the "Month Day Year" into a real date, I used "January 31 2009".

3) Edit the "Version x.x" into a real BT version, I used "Version 3.6".

None of these are important for right now, I've done them as part of the
packaging; this is just a "for the future" thing.

So something like:

  for i in man/*.8 ; do sed -i -e 's/Month Day Year/January 31 2009/' \
    -e s/x.x/3.6/ -e s/8/1/ $i ; git-mv $i ${i/8/1} ; done

should take care of all of that in one line :)

> Seems it is working now, I had forgotten to use the --tags when pushing
> to the repository. After adding this switch it pushed tags out, so if
> all's well, they should now be available in the public repo.

Thanks.  It worked fine, I can see all the tags under
bibledit/.git/tags/ now!

>> Right now bibledit-3.6-1ubuntu1~jmarsden1 is building in my PPA, so 
>> Ubuntu Intrepid users who want to test it out could ...

> That is definitely good news for the translators that use bibledit. If
> this information were posted to address@hidden, they would
> then see it.

OK.  I'll see about merging this package into our team bzr repository
and building from there, rather than pointing 'normal' users (not that
many bible translators would really fit that description anyway!) at my
personal PPA, which is a bit of a testbed at times.  I already have a
~jmarsden2 version with the added manpages in it.

>> No promises, but... do you have good current RPM packaging for Fedora 
>> and CentOS already?  A quick Google search found only RPMs for bibledit 
>> 0.6, dated 2005 :-)

> Nothing current is available for RPM at all, and the 0.6 one is, I
> think, the most recent one...

OK.  Something for me to think about when the rush for Jaunty stuff is
over.  I've not done RPM packaging for some time, I think since about
2001 or so when I did some for Operation Mobilization, but... it might
be worth a look.

Jonathan