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Re: RFS: libcommons-collections-java 2.1.1-9



On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:42:01PM +0530, Onkar Shinde wrote:
> > Hi Onkar,
> >
> > Thank you for working on this.  I took a look at the packaging.  There
> > are several lintian warnings that are easily addressed:
> >
> > W: libcommons-collections-java source: changelog-should-mention-nmu
> > W: libcommons-collections-java source:
> > source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 2.1.1-9
> > W: libcommons-collections-java:
> > debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding at line 35
> > W: libcommons-collections-java: wrong-section-according-to-package-name
> > libcommons-collections-java => java
> >
> > Can you take at those and update debian/control and debian/copyright?  I
> > can sponsor the upload for you.
> 
> I converted the encoding of copyright file from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. I
> also fixed section in control file.
> I don't think I need to make it a NMU since it is a team maintained
> package. Let me know if you think it otherwise.

A simple workaround for that is to edit the changelog, and convert it to:

  [ Onkar Shinde ]
  <changelog entries>

 -- Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>  Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:49:13 -0500

That way, you don't need to add yourself to uploaders, and the lintian
warning goes away.

HTH.

Kumar
-- 
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a
fundamental error.  Be thankful you are not my student.  You would not get a
high grade for such a design :-)
(Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)

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