Re: [RFS] SleepyHead (ITP: #780060)
On Monday, October 12 2015, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> > Please note that there is no point in creating a new changelog entry if
>> > there was no package uploaded. I dropped the new entry - please pull.
>>
>> Yeah, I was not sure whether or not it made sense to do that. On the
>> one hand, if I had not done that, we would have a tag pointing to a
>> Debian release (debian/0.9.8-1) and then we would have commits after
>> this tag. On the other hand, we would have a second Debian release
>> without having released the first.
>
> Only packages that really made it to unstable should be tagged. So
> please remove the tag until the package is accepted.
>
>> I think the solution would be to retag the latest commit as
>> debian/0.9.8-1, maybe?
>
> Yes. But as I said *after* ftpmaster has accepted the package.
Right, thanks for the clarification.
>> > I: sleepyhead source: debian-watch-file-is-missing
>>
>> This is because upstream is still not releasing versioned source
>> tarballs. I've made a request to the author, and he told me he is going
>> to start doing that in the next releases.
>
> OK. What we are doing in this case is documenting this like
>
> debian/watch:
>
> # upstream is still not releasing versioned source
> # tarballs. I've made a request to the author, and he told me he is going
> # to start doing that in the next releases.
Hm, OK.
>> > I: sleepyhead: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/SleepyHead calender calendar
>> > I: sleepyhead: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/SleepyHead Libaries Libraries
>> > I: sleepyhead: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/SleepyHead consistancy consistency
>> > I: sleepyhead: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/SleepyHead succesfully successfully
>> > I: sleepyhead: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/SleepyHead independant independent
>> > I: sleepyhead: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/SleepyHead seperately separately
>> > I: sleepyhead: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/SleepyHead softwares software
>> > I: sleepyhead: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/SleepyHead GNU Public License GNU General Public License
>>
>> These are all spelling errors. I can obviously patch the package
>> locally and send a patch upstream, but I don't think it's worth delaying
>> the release because of this (IMHO).
>
> Ahh, you are right. I somehow assumed you are part of the upstream
> team. I'd recommend to simply forward these issues.
I've already sent a patch fixing these issues.
I decided not to patch the package because that will involve some manual
work on resolving conflicts. Upstream will likely release a new version
soon anyway.
>> > I: sleepyhead: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
>>
>> I can fix this.
>>
>> > I: sleepyhead: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
>>
>> The package has really no documentation (unfortunately). The three
>> files that are listed in debian/docs are very simple (rudimentary, I'd
>> say) texts; that's why I did not register a doc-base. If you think it
>> is worth, I can silence this info.
>
> May be it makes sense to provide a lintian-override. I do not want
> to be over-picky. Just mentioning the options to a newbie.
OK.
>> > Since you confirmed to be upstream (or closely connected to upstream) if
>> > I remember correctly, you might even be easily able to fix the spelling
>> > issues.
>>
>> I'm not upstream, I'm just becoming more involved with it. I will send
>> patches fixing the spelling errors, and I'll patch the package locally
>> as well.
>
> Fine. Just ping me once you think you are finished with theses things.
It's all done. I've pushed the new commits to the repository.
Thanks,
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