Re: RFS (kind of) and newbieish problem; TyopoytaORvelo System MOnitor
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:52:55PM +0300, Juuso T?hk?p?? wrote:
> I intend to package and maintain Torsmo, ( http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/ )
> a light and simplistic resource monitof for X. I am in the process of
> learning to properly use debian packaging tools, and already managed to make
> a package that installs, uninstalls and works correctly, but I can't figure
> out what lintian warns me about:
>
> $lintian -i torsmo_0.15-1_i386.changes
> W: torsmo source: changelog-should-mention-nmu
> N:
> N: When you NMU a package, that fact should be mentioned on the first
> N: line in the changelog entry.
> N:
> W: torsmo source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 0.15-1
> N:
> N: A source NMU should have a Debian revision of '-x.x'. This is to
> N: prevent stealing version numbers from the maintainer (and the -x.x.x
> N: version numbers are reserved for binary-only NMU's).
>
> What configs should I fix, or is this normal in some cases?
I got from the .changes:
Maintainer: Juuso Tähkäpää <jupet@mbnet.fi>
Changed-By: Juuso Tähkäpää <jupet@mbnet.fi>
which is the cause. You should write your name in debian/control at
'Maintainer:' in UTF-8 too for the Debian archive scripts to recognise
this is the same person (and thus recognise it as a maintainer upload,
rather than a Non-Maintainer Upload aka NMU).
Historically, only plain ASCII (that is excluding the a with <how do you
call that in finnish?>) is allowed in debian/control, but if you're
going to violate that (unwritten) rule (which is quite common and an
understandable wish) you should use UTF-8.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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