Re: RFS: stopwatch
Thank you for your quick and courtious reply. I made the suggested changes,
and the new packages is availible at geocities.com/vze49jxa.
Regarding the communication problem, I can also be emailed at
djmilstein@gmail.com, which should work fine with European mail servers.
Some things to note:
1. I could not get the "patch-stamp" file to be generated without an error, so
I did not include that code in the debian/rules file as suggested in the
dpatch manpages.
2. The upstream package is not *NIX specific, so I am unsure of the
appropriateness of sending the manpage upstream. I shall do so if you still
insist that I should, however.
3. Regarding the copyright file, the software is not copyrighted, so it is not
under any license. There was something on the debian-legal list a while back
that is archived at:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/07/msg00307.html.
I was unsure whether I was supposed to reply to you personally or reply via
the mailing list, so I replied via the mailing list since that seemed to be
what everyone else was doing. If that was not what I was supposed to do,
please let me know, and I will not do it in the future.
Many thanks,
Daniel Milstein
On Monday 31 October 2005 3:57 pm, Christoph Haas wrote:
> Hi, Daniel...
>
> On Monday 31 October 2005 03:07, Daniel Milstein wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone would be interesting in sponsoring the
> > stopwatch, a virtual stopwatch and timer program, package, which is in
> > the public domain. I could not find any programs like it in APT,
> > although there may be some that I overlooked.
>
> I had also looked for a simple stopwatch program but couldn't find one.
> So perhaps there is none in Debian yet. :)
>
> > Its ITP bug number is 336534 and the package
> > can be found at http://geocities.com/vze49jxa. It
> > is lintian and linda clean and has been thoroughly tested. Its upstream
> > source is http://expect.nist.gov/stopwatch.
>
> Hints/Suggestions:
>
> - you altered the Makefile but I don't see why
> - If you need to change the base path of "wish" I suggest you do that
> through the powers of "dpatch" instead of changing the script
> directly. Otherwise you will have to do that with every new
> upstream release.
> - instead of copying (cp) files around you may also use dh_install
> and dh_installman for consistency.
> - the debian/rules file contains dh_ lines that can be removed.
> dh_link for example. And all the lines that are commented out.
> - have you offered the man page to the upstream for inclusion in
> the next upstream version?
> - you use docbook-to-man but at the same time your diff.gz contains
> a stopwatch.1x file. Shouldn't that be created during building?
> - the debian/copyright is too minimal. Include the proper years of
> copyright. And clarify the license. "public domain" doesn't mean much.
> Check the DFSG.
>
> I would generally help and sponsor your package. But since verizon.net is
> rejecting mail from my mail server (mx.workaround.org) for a year and does
> not intend to talk to me why they do that it may be hard to communicate
> with you. (Someone should kick them hard.)
>
> Christoph
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