[ENBD] Bring enbd back in Debian?

[Peter T. Breuer]

"Also sprach Bas van Schaik:"
> OK, I'll look at patching Makefile.in. However, there will be some
> additional minor changes in the toplevel Makefile. I'll send you a copy
> of the diffs when ready.

It should be enough to change the call of the submake in the top level
makefile. It's just that it seems strange to have a configure script
which goes to the trouble of writing a Makefile, and then to override
what that Makefile says.


> Why do you want to supply a "debian" directory with the source code? The
> debian directory is useless for those who want to build enbd from
> source, it's only used to create a .deb binary. So there's no reason at
> all to include the debian directory in the source tar.gz-file, only the
> package maintainer (that would be me) will need it.

OK. 

> >The client and server conf man page (enbd.conf), you mean? That needs
> >two man pages pointing at it, enbd_server.conf and enbd_client.conf (as
> >I remember). I don't recall how to do pointers in nroff.
> >  
> >
> Yes, but also the manpages of the client and server binaries.

These exist already.

> So, when
> finished, there'll be four different manpages:
> enbd_client.conf(5) and enbd-client(8) in the enbd-client package
> enbd_server.conf(5) and enbd-server(8) in the enbd-server package

There are more. There's the enbd-cstatd and enbd-sstatd mangages too.
But the only NEW ones required are for enbd_server.conf and
enbd-client.conf, which may as well point to enbd.conf.


> What do you mean with "pointers" exactly?

It's a syntactic form in an nroff file. I see bzless.1 has it:

    
    .so man1/bzmore.1

(that's all - a one-liner).

> I'll manage the differences between the source distribution and the
> target debian package, but if you need some help with the source package
> (for example, editing manpages, as I suggested), I would be glad to help!

Well, as I said, the editing isn't needed! Just two new one line man pages!

Peter