Re: libtecla package
Thank you for the feedback and changes, Andreas.
I've fixed that lintian warning about the man page with a patch, it was an invalid control sequence in the man page. Now lintian is clean.
I believe the package is ready for upload!
thanks
Scott
On Feb 11, 2011, at 3:02 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:44:11PM -0600, Scott Christley wrote:
>> I just committed the initial packaging for libtecla, ITP bug #612625. I would be happy if somebody could review my package.
>>
>> When I run lintian I get these messages, I kinda understand the errors but am not sure how to resolve. For example, how do I indicate this package closes an ITP bug? I had to make a patch for the Makefile but I don't understand what lintian is complaining about.
>>
>>
>> W: libtecla source: newer-standards-version 3.9.1 (current is 3.8.0)
>
> Probably an old lintian version? For development issues you should definitely
>
> sudo apt-get install -t unstable lintian
>
> or even more clever put the following content into
> /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-linitan.pref
>
> Package: lintian
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 601
>
> Just note: Even if you are using a pbuilder unstable chroot lintian will
> be runned on your local machine.
>
>> E: libtecla source: patch-modifying-debian-files add-destdir.patch debian/Makefile.in
>
> You should probably put the following text into your ~/.quiltrc
>
> QUILT_DIFF_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index"
> QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index"
> QUILT_PATCH_OPTS="--unified-reject-files"
> QUILT_PATCHES="debian/patches"
>
> This is written in Debian Med policy[1]. Once you have this you
> can simply do:
>
> quilt push
> quilt refresh
>
> and the message is gone.
>
>> W: libtecla1-dev: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man3/gl_get_line.3.gz 1659: warning: `\n'' not defined
>
> I have not checked this
>
>> W: libtecla1-dev: new-package-should-close-itp-bug
>> W: libtecla1: new-package-should-close-itp-bug
>
> You forgot to mention the ITP bug number in your changelog.
>
> Once I used newer lintian I've got some more warnings I have fixed with
> the exception of the man page related ones. I do not think that these
> do not deserve fixing but I currently do not have time to dive into
> this. You usually get valuable hints when running `lintian -i` and if
> you try `lintian -i -I` you get even more hints about problems in
> manpages:
>
> BTW, I changed your short description which was actually no short
> description but rather the starting phrase of the long description.
> Please read developers reference about this.
>
> Just let us know when you consider the package ready for sponsering.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for picking up this packaging task
>
> Andreas.
>
> [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
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