Here's a patch that will address the errors from lintian, which would justify the severity of this bug. The rest of your changes would be severity important I think. Have you tried contacting the current maintainer in getting all your changes uploaded to Debian? -- Regards, Andres
W: crystalspace source: debian-rules-sets-DH_COMPAT line 15
N:
N: As of debhelper version 4, the DH_COMPAT environment variable is only
N: to be used for temporarily overriding debian/compat. Any line in
N: debian/rules that sets it globally should be deleted and a separate
N: debian/compat file created if needed.
N:
N: Refer to the debhelper(7) manual page for details.
N:
N: Severity: normal; Certainty: certain
N:
W: crystalspace source: substvar-source-version-is-deprecated crystalspace-dev
N:
N: The package uses the now deprecated ${Source-Version} substvar, which
N: has misleading semantics. Please switch to ${binary:Version} or
N: ${source:Version} as appropriate. Support for ${Source-Version} may be
N: removed from dpkg-dev in the future.
N:
N: Severity: normal; Certainty: certain
N:
W: crystalspace source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.2.2 (current is 3.8.0)
N:
N: The source package refers to a Standards-Version older than the one
N: that was current at the time the package was created (according to the
N: timestamp of the latest debian/changelog entry). Please consider
N: updating the package to current Policy and setting this control field
N: appropriately.
N:
N: If the package is already compliant with the current standards, you
N: don't have to re-upload the package just to adjust the
N: Standards-Version control field. However, please remember to update
N: this field next time you upload the package.
N:
N: Severity: normal; Certainty: certain
N:
W: crystalspace source: build-depends-on-1-revision build-depends: nasm (>= 0.98.08-1)
N:
N: The package declares a build dependency on a version of a package with
N: a -1 Debian revision such as "libfoo (>= 1.2-1)". Such a dependency
N: will not be satisfied by a backport of libfoo 1.2-1 and therefore
N: makes backporting unnecessarily difficult. Normally, the -1 version is
N: unneeded and a dependency such as "libfoo (>= 1.2)" would be
N: sufficient. If there was an earlier -0.X version of libfoo that would
N: not satisfy the dependency, use "libfoo (>= 1.2-1~)" instead.
N:
N: Severity: normal; Certainty: possible
N:
W: crystalspace source: build-depends-on-1-revision build-depends: libogg-dev (>= 1.0rc2-1)
E: crystalspace source: build-depends-on-obsolete-package build-depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev
N:
N: The package build-depends on a package that has been superseded. If
N: the superseded package is part of an ORed group, it should not be the
N: first package in the group.
N:
N: Severity: important; Certainty: possible
N:
E: crystalspace source: build-depends-on-obsolete-package build-depends: tetex-bin
E: crystalspace source: build-depends-on-obsolete-package build-depends: x-dev
W: crystalspace: extra-license-file usr/share/crystalspace-1.2/data/maps/castle/license.txt
N:
N: All license information should be collected in the debian/copyright
N: file. This usually makes it unnecessary for the package to install
N: this information in other places as well.
N:
N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 12.5 (Copyright information) for
N: details.
N:
N: Severity: normal; Certainty: possible
N:
E: crystalspace: package-section-games-but-contains-no-game
N:
N: This package is marked as part of the section games, but doesn't
N: contain files in /usr/games. Binaries of games must be installed in
N: /usr/games.
N:
N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 11.11 (Games) for details.
N:
N: Severity: important; Certainty: certain
N:
W: crystalspace: script-not-executable ./usr/share/crystalspace-1.2/bindings/perl5/perlsimp.pl
N:
N: This file starts with the #! sequence that marks interpreted scripts,
N: but it is not executable.
N:
N: Severity: normal; Certainty: certain
N:
W: crystalspace: script-not-executable ./usr/share/crystalspace-1.2/build/autoconf/config.guess
W: crystalspace: script-not-executable ./usr/share/crystalspace-1.2/build/autoconf/config.sub
W: crystalspace: script-not-executable ./usr/share/crystalspace-1.2/build/autoconf/install-sh
W: crystalspace: script-not-executable ./usr/share/crystalspace-1.2/build/jamtemplate/autogen.template
W: crystalspace: maintainer-script-empty prerm
N:
N: The maintainer script doesn't seem to contain any code other than
N: comments and boilerplate (set -e, exit statements, and the case
N: statement to parse options). While this is harmless in most cases, it
N: is probably not what you wanted, may mean the package will leave
N: unnecessary files behind until purged, and may even lead to problems
N: in rare situations where dpkg would fail if no maintainer script was
N: present.
N:
N: If the package currently doesn't need to do anything in this
N: maintainer script, it shouldn't be included in the package.
N:
N: Severity: minor; Certainty: certain
N:
W: crystalspace: maintainer-script-empty preinst
W: crystalspace: menu-item-creates-new-section Games/Arcade/CrystalSpace /usr/share/menu/crystalspace:6
N:
N: The menu item has a line that specifies an unknown section or uses a
N: section that is intended only as a menu root, not as a section that
N: applications should use directly. Check the spelling of the section
N: and check the section against the list in the menu policy. (The menu
N: sections changed as of June of 2007.)
N:
N: Refer to The Debian Menu sub-policy section 2.1 (Preferred menu
N: structure) for details.
N:
N: Severity: normal; Certainty: certain
N:
W: crystalspace: menu-item-creates-new-section Games/Arcade/CrystalSpace /usr/share/menu/crystalspace:12
W: crystalspace: menu-item-creates-new-section Games/Arcade/CrystalSpace /usr/share/menu/crystalspace:18
W: crystalspace: menu-item-creates-new-section Games/Arcade/CrystalSpace /usr/share/menu/crystalspace:24
--- debian/control.bak 2008-10-07 22:57:19.000000000 -0400 +++ debian/control 2008-10-07 23:03:31.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ Source: crystalspace -Section: games +Section: graphics Priority: optional Maintainer: Christian Bayle <bayle@debian.org> -Build-Depends: python-support (>= 0.4), debhelper(>= 5), nasm (>= 0.98.08-1), lib3ds-dev (>= 1.2.0), libogg-dev (>= 1.0rc2-1), libmikmod2-dev, libvorbis-dev (>>1.0.0), docbook-to-man, xlibmesa-gl-dev | libgl-dev, zip, libpng3-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libfreetype6-dev, zlib1g-dev, libode0-dev, libopenal-dev, libalut-dev, libcal3d-dev, swig, dh-buildinfo, flex, bison, texinfo, tetex-bin, doxygen, gs-common, glutg3-dev, libmng-dev, libsdl1.2-dev, autoconf, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxxf86vm-dev, x-dev +Build-Depends: python-support (>= 0.4), debhelper(>= 5), nasm (>= 0.98.08-1), lib3ds-dev (>= 1.2.0), libogg-dev (>= 1.0rc2-1), libmikmod2-dev, libvorbis-dev (>>1.0.0), docbook-to-man, libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev, zip, libpng3-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libfreetype6-dev, zlib1g-dev, libode0-dev, libopenal-dev, libalut-dev, libcal3d-dev, swig, dh-buildinfo, flex, bison, texinfo, texlive, doxygen, gs-common, glutg3-dev, libmng-dev, libsdl1.2-dev, autoconf, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxxf86vm-dev, x11proto-core-dev Standards-Version: 3.7.2.2 Package: crystalspace
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