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Re: Looking for Mentor



On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:59:33AM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote:
>* Joshua Bernstein <bjosh@engr.arizona.edu> [2004-07-19 18:22:29 -0700]:
>
>> The debian packages and files can be found here:
>> 
>> http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bjosh/
> Just fetched.
>
>> I know they aren't perfect, but its the first one I've done, so I'd 
>> like to have some help!
> There are some mistakes: first, please try to split off the source;
>name the 'upstream' source _only_ to ncview_1.92e.orig.tar.gz and let
>debuild or anything else you use to build your package to generate a
>diff for it. Also, building fails right off at the configure:
>checking for /root/src/netcdf/netcdf-3.4/src/libsrc/netcdf.h... no
>Error: I cannot find the directory that holds the netcdf include file netcdf.h!
>
>Please remove debian/ncview.doc-base.EX (example file, and you don't use
>it), debian/README.Debian (it's empty, useless).
>Looking into the source, I see you directly program X11, but you don't
>have any build dependencies on it in debian/control (do you need
>interface/x_interface.orig.c btw?).
>Please remove the unused (commented out lines) from debian/rules
>Please fix debian/copyright , if there's only one upstream author, then
>you don't need the (s) at the end, a pointer to
>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL would be good, etc. Please look into
>other packages' copyright file (someone have a good link how a copyright
>file should like, please speak up).

[0] http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200312/msg00007.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/12/msg00194.html
[3] http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html

>I think we can help you more if you fixed these. For additional help,
>please see:
>http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
>http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
>http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/
>
>Regards,
>Laszlo/GCS

Regards,

Anibal Monsalve Salazar
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