Merge branch 'release-4.16.1'

[i3/i3] / PACKAGE-MAINTAINER

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@@ -10,21 +10,23 @@ packages for them.
 Please make sure the manpage for i3 will be properly created and installed
 in your package.
 
-Also please provide the path to a suitable terminal emulator which is installed
-as a dependency of your package (e.g. urxvt). On systems which have a special
-commend to launch the best available terminal emulator, please use this one
-(e.g. x-terminal-emulator on debian).
+Please check the i3-sensible-{editor,pager,terminal} scripts and modify them if
+necessary. The former two provide fallbacks in case $PAGER or $EDITOR is not
+set (which might be more common than you think, because they have to be set in
+~/.xsession, not in the shell configuration!) while the latter tries to launch
+a terminal emulator. The scripts are most prominently used in i3-nagbar, which
+alerts the user when the configuration is broken for some reason. Also,
+i3-sensible-terminal is used in the default configuration.
 
-On debian, this looks like this:
+If your distribution has a mechanism to get the preferred terminal, such as the
+x-terminal-emulator symlink in Debian, please use it in i3-sensible-terminal.
 
-       # Compilation
-       $(MAKE) TERM_EMU=x-terminal-emulator
-       $(MAKE) -C man
+On debian, compilation and installing the manpages looks like this:
 
-       # Installation
-       $(MAKE) DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/ install
-       mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/usr/share/man/man1
-       cp man/*.1 $(CURDIR)/debian/i3-wm/usr/share/man/man1
+       autoreconf -fi
+       mkdir -p build && cd build
+       ../configure
+       make -j8 install
 
 Please make sure that i3-migrate-config-to-v4 and i3-config-wizard are
 installed with i3. The Perl script is necessary to (automatically) convert v3
@@ -34,9 +36,9 @@ start of i3 (it will automatically exit if it finds a config file).
 
 If you have any questions, ideas, hints, problems or whatever, please do not
 hesitate to contact me. I will help you out. Just drop me an E-Mail (find the
-address at http://michael.stapelberg.de/Kontakt, scroll down to bottom),
+address at https://michael.stapelberg.de/Impressum/, scroll down to bottom),
 contact me using the same address in jabber or ask on our IRC channel:
-(#i3 on irc.twice-irc.de).
+(#i3 on irc.freenode.net).
 
 Thanks again for your efforts,
 Michael