[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: RFS: inkblot



Hi,

IANADD so I cannot sponsor your upload, but anyways some comments.

First of all:
You really should include the URL to the .dsc file of your package.
That way you make it a lot of easier for potential sponsors to find your
package and you higher the chances that a potential sponsor will have a
look at it.

General:
	- inkblot links against libraries whose symbols it does not use.
	  Therefore dpkh-shlibdeps. Therefore you should try to fix that.

debian/control:
	- Build-Depends for debhelper is over-precise. It should
      be enough to depend on a version >= 5. Rationale: Specifying it more
      precises has no benefit and makes life harder for backporters.

debian/copyright:
	- Homepage in "... was downloaded from .. " differs from Homepage
	  field in debian/control. Why?
	- You may want to consider adding machine-parseable informations to
	  this file, as this proposal [1] suggest.
	- Personally I find the copyright file to be quiet cluttered. I'd do it
	  different. See for example dnsproxy or mantis from sid
	  for an example on how I would do it.
	- See the lintian warning

debian/rules:
	- There is no need to keep the dh-make comments :-)
	- Its gould to have DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE and such in your rules file to
	  make it behave better when beeing cross-built,  but you should do it different,
	  because this might be problematic when not beeing cross built. See [2]
	- Personally I would prefer to make configure call multi-line (with
	  \ escaping the line break) for cosmetic reasons ;-)
	- install target: You use make DESTDIR=foo install, dh_install and
	  additional delete files from the DESTDIR. Why? dh_install is not
	  really needed in here, you could do this with normal install
	  calls.

debian/manpages: What is this file for?

Best Regards

Patrick

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423707

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +0600, Sikon wrote:
> Original RFS: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/07/msg00735.html
> 
> I have uploaded inkblot version 0.99.9-1. Also filed an ITP: Debian bug 
> 455529, link: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455529 .
> 
> Sikon



-- 
in medias res Gesellschaft für Kommunikationstechnologien mbH
Dahlenerstr. 570
D-41239 Mönchengladbach

tel. +49 (0) 2166 - 9999 - 685
fax. +49 (0) 2616 - 9999 - 800
email: schoenfeld@in-medias-res.com



Reply to: