Re: RFS: libcommons-collections-java 2.1.1-9
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.11.2009, 06:11 -0600 schrieb Kumar Appaiah:
>> 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.
>
> You should add yourself to uploaders instead of using this "workaround"
> if you care about this package and intent to do another upload in the
> future.
I am not planning to another upload in near future. I am just fixing
problems in packages I am coming across while working on
cruisecontrol.
Onkar
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