[MIR] yodl

[Felix Geyer]

Rationale:
A new version of the zsh package from Debian requires yodl as a build-dependency to generate its docs. See bug #762286
yodl itself requires icmake to build.

Security:
Both packages have no security history.

Quality assurance:
The packages seem to be maintained well. There are only minor bugs on Launchpad/Debian BTS.

Standards compliance:
They use relatively recent packaging techniques and comply with the latest Debian Policy 3.9.2.

Maintenance:
Basically they can be kept in sync with Debian but I had to modify yodl to drop its build-dependency on mktemp which is a transitional package for coreutils in universe. I have already forwarded the changes to Debian.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

hmm another "make" in main? are the generated zsh docs still included in the zsh sources?

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

I think they are in the upstream tarball but Debian strips them before creating their orig.tar.bz2.
Anyway the reason to regnerate the docs is that we have the zsh configs in /etc/zsh but the pre-generated docs say the configs are in /etc.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Ping.

We are way past feature freeze and this blocks uploading a new zsh version.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

sorry for the delay. is there a FFe for zsh? if not, I'd like to delay this for the q-series. If there is a FFe, please consider shipping the original tarball for precise. I'll address this with the MIR team at UDS.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

5 development cycles later, what needs to be done to approve icmake & yodl M.I.R.? zsh packaging divergence is getting harder to untangle and maintain.

[Felix Geyer (debfx)]

Another month later ...
I hope doing parts of the build "offline" to avoid proper build-dependencies is not considered a permanent solution.

If it is a problem to promote these two packages please consider dropping zsh from whatever seed that is pulling it into main.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

closing as invalid, because we now can use build dependencies from universe