Re: RFS: compactheader
Hi.
On Sep 02 2010, Williams Orellana wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "compactheader".
A quick follow up to comment on your package:
* Please, package version 1.2.4.
* Are you sure that the license is MPL-1.1+ and not the tri-license?
* Your packaging is under the GPL-3+ and this will cause any changes
that you make to not be able to be pushed upstream (say that you
produce a patch).
Please, consider always having the packaging in the same terms as the
upstream software, even if you would prefer another license.
* The short description should start with a lowercase letter.
* Your watch file doesn't seem to work:
,----
| rbrito@chagas:/tmp/compactheader-1.2.3$ uscan --report-status
| uscan warning: In debian/watch,
| no matching hrefs for watch line
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/downloads/file/92157/xpi/compactheader\-([\d\.]*)\-tb\.xpi debian xpi-repack
| rbrito@chagas:/tmp/compactheader-1.2.3$
`----
It took me some time to figure out the better solution to use with
mozilla addons. Just look into
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/addons/13564/
Be careful to regard the betas as lower than the final releases.
Something like mangling the upstream version with s/beta/~beta/
works.
* A more philosophical question is that of using xpi-repack to pack an
extension: that simply seems to me like packaging the binary product
of a program and not using the source code.
I did this with the packages that I mentioned on my earlier e-mail,
but I still think that this is wrong.
Regards,
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