Re: sponsor wanted
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:43:25 +0900,
Botond Botyanszki <boti@mick.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> I've been developing a Japanese dictionary package for gnome.
> Debian and rpm packages have been around for quite a while and
> it's now officially included in SuSE and TurboLinux, but not yet in Debian.
> Packages are available from the project's site at sourceforge:
> http://gjiten.sourceforge.net
>
> So I'm looking for a sponsor who would upload it into debian.
I looked at it. Comments:
* This is not a Debian-native package, so you should provide
both of .orig.tar.gz and .diff.gz .
* debian/control says:
| Maintainer: B0Ti <b0ti@users.sourceforge.net>
If you want to maintain a package in Debian, you should use
your real full name.
| Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)
At least libgnome-dev and libdb3-dev are missing.
| Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
| Suggests: kanjipad
gjiten doesn't work without a dictionary file, so gjiten must
depend on a package which provide one.
* You need to remove config.status and config.cache manually
in the clean target of debian/rules because make distclean
does nothing in the first run (there is no Makefile).
* You should not include INSTALL in .deb .
* Don't compile with -ggdb by default.
* lintian is your friend.
* Being sponsored means you maintain the package. To maintain
a package you need a Debian account and you need to apply
the NM process if you don't have one, If you just want to
see gjiten in Debian, file a RFP bug against wnpp.
* README.ja is broken (mojibake). (This is an upstream bug,
not a packaging problem.)
* I don't sponsor anyone who is not in the NM queue or
who doesn't have a GPG key signed by a Debian developer.
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