Re: [ITP] irssi-0.8.12

["Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr dot Volker dot Zell at oracle dot com>]

>>>>> Kostya Altukhov writes:

    > Included in debian stable
    >     http://packages.debian.org/irssi

    > category: Net
    > requires: libncurses8 cygwin perl glib2 openssl libintl3 libiconv2 crypt
    > sdesc:    "A terminal based IRC client."
    > ldesc:    "A terminal based IRC client.
    > Supports autologging, formats and themes, configurable
    > keybindings, perl scripting."

    > wget \
    >     http://kacygwinlist2.googlepages.com/irssi-0.8.12-1-src.tar.bz2 \
    >     http://kacygwinlist2.googlepages.com/irssi-0.8.12-1.tar.bz2 \
    >     http://kacygwinlist2.googlepages.com/setup.hint


Builds fine from source.

The minimal requires line should be:

  requires: cygwin glib2 libncurses8 openssl perl

There are other packaging bugs:

a.)  /etc/irssi.conf should go to /etc/defaults/etc/irssi.conf and copied to
     /etc via a postinstall script.

b.)  /usr/lib/irssi/modules is empty

c.)  The contents of /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/perllocal.pod should be
     appended to the system /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/perllocal.pod

d.)  The various .packlist files below /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/auto contain
     the DESTDIR directory prepended to the filenames

I would recommend switching to the cygport build framework. cygport
usually takes care of a.), c.) and maybe d.)