On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:56:07 +0200 stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers) wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 11:24:59PM +0200, Simon MARTIN wrote: > > Hi debian-mentors! > > > > First of all, the most important information: > > > > =========== > > > > * Package name : gnotify > > Version : 0.8 > > Upstream Author : Marius M. M. <DevilX33@hotmail.com> > > * URL : http://gnotify.sourceforge.net/ > > * License : GPL > > Description : a notification service for many > > desktop-environments > > and WM's > > > > GNotify is a little daemon written in C using GTK. It provides > > (like the KDE KNotify-system) a notification-service for > > Gnome/XFce/FVWM/Fluxbox/Enlightenment and other > > Desktop-Environments/WindowManagers. > > > > =========== > > > > I'm packaging gnotify for about a month now, and I thought that it > > would be nice to have it in Debian directly also. > > Although gnotify is still far away from getting finished (espacially > > regarding documentation), it already provides good functionality. > > > > The latest version of gnotity can be downloaded from > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnotify/ > > , whereas version 0.8-9 is the first one that is completely > > lintian-clean (the only warnings that remain are those: > > > > W: gnotify source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.status > > W: gnotify source: configure-generated-file-in-source config.log > > I assume that upstream includes those files in their tarball, they > shouldn't. Educate them, tell it doesn't make sense the ship files > that are generated on normal build. > (For now you can tweak the original tarball, but that is considered > harmfull ) Ok, after hours of senseless buildings and version increments, I've done so ... and finally it worked! I've noticed the upstream author. > > > > but I've read this can be ignored when beeing sure that the noted > > files are removed by debian/rules clean, which I'm quite sure > > about). To be honest, linda still finds an error: > > > > E: gnotify; Package contains autoconf-generated files. > > > > but I've absolutely no idea which files could be blamed for that. > > Please let me know what I've made wrong here. > > I culpritt config.status & config.log, but I should have download your > files, so I do know what I talking about. You were right, linda is satisfied now also. > > > > gnotify can also be fetched via apt by easily adding the following > > line to the sources.list: > > > > deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free > > deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib > > non-free > > > > As you can see in the changelog, it took me several tries until I > > finally got a lintian-clean package. > > Although I think I've read the most important parts of manuals for > > New Maintainers, references for developers and so on, it is still > > quite possibly that I'm violating one or more Debian Policies. > > Please let me know in this case. > > > > I'd be very thankful for any notes and / or sponsorships. > > > > Kind regards, > > Simon > > > > PS: I've already filed a bug against [1]wnpp, which I close in > > version 0.8-9; the latest version is 0.8-10 > > > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246481 > > > Cheers > Geert Stappers > For now, version 0.8.2-1 is available via mentors.debian.net. I'd be very happy about any hints again. Kind regards, Simon
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