Re: RFS: xshisen_1.51-2 --- Shisen-sho game for X11
Hi Margarita! :-)
On 2/21/06, Margarita Manterola <margamanterola@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Zak B. Elep <zakame@spunge.org> wrote:
> > As usual the source package can be found at mentors.debian.net .[1]
> > [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xshisen/
>
> Zak, I've been looking at the package. It looks quite good.
>
> However, I found that at the changelog you close many bugs,
> acknowledging the NMUs. This is what the Developer's Reference says,
> but it has actually been reported as a bug, by Jeroen [1]. So, you
> might want to drop that and ask your future sponsor to please build
> the package with the -v<version> option.
>
> [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353447
>
Just visited the link, and yes, from Jeroen's explanation I clearly
see the rationale behind this. Yeah, I figured closing too many bugs
inside a Closes didn't seem right, but since developers-reference says
so... :/
> Also, I got all these lintian errors:
>
> W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/man6/xshisen.6.gz 140: a space character is not allowed
> in an escape name
> W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/ja/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: cannot
> adjust line
> W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/ja_JP/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: cannot
> adjust line
> W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/ja_JP.JIS7/man6/xshisen.6.gz conversion from `JIS7' is
> not supported
> W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/ja_JP.PCK/man6/xshisen.6.gz conversion from `PCK' is
> not supported
> W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/ja_JP.SJIS/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]:
> cannot adjust line
> W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]:
> cannot adjust line
> W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/ja_JP.ujis/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]:
> cannot adjust line
> W: xshisen: unquoted-string-in-menu-item /usr/share/menu/xshisen needs:2
> W: xshisen: unquoted-string-in-menu-item /usr/share/menu/xshisen section:2
>
> The manpages might not be errors at all, since it's in japanese, and
> maybe lintian is not really so good at checking japanese manpages, but
> the others are real warnings:
Reading Nicolas' mail I think I can fix this. Thanks Nekral! :D
> ?package(xshisen):needs=X11 section=Games/Board\
> title="xshisen" command="/usr/games/xshisen"
>
> Should be:
>
> ?package(xshisen):needs="X11" section="Games/Board"\
> title="xshisen" command="/usr/games/xshisen"
Gaah, I thought this was already changed :/
> Also, when running "linda" against it, I got this other error:
>
> W: xshisen; Package version 1.51-2 is less than 1.51-1-1.3.
>
> Which looks kind of puzzling at the first moment, but after parsing
> the numbers, it's correct.
>
> 1.51-2 means: upstream 1.51 - debian 2
> 1.51-1-1.3 means: upstream 1.51-1 - debian 1.3
>
> So, even if the debian part is greater, the upstream part is smaller.
> I guess you'll have to keep the extra -1 until the next upstream
> release comes.
How about an epoch (_shudder_)? Would that work?
As for the rest of the warnings, I'm fixing those now, and I'll upload
a new xshisen by the time afternoon comes. ;) Thanks everyone for
your tips! :D
Cheers,
Zakame
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