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Re: RFS: softbeep (updated package)



Hello,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> * There are open bugs in the bts for softbeep, which have no response
>   yet, and might have some merit. Have you looked at the bugs? Can they
>   be fixed in this upload? If not, you could respond to the reporters
>   why it will not (yet) be resolved.
Ok, will look at it.

> * I personally think that "3.7.2.2" is too precise for a
>   standards-version, since the last part should not make any difference
>   for a package. I suggest to keep only the significant "3.7.2" part.
Ok, kept it as it is.

> * You install the upstream file "RELEASES" as documentation, but it is
>   some sort of a changelog. I propose to have it installed by
>   dh_installchangelogs instead.
Well, that's how the package was. Anyways, I just read the manpage of 
dh_installchangelogs, but I don't understand how to use it to specify 
RELEASES as a changelog.

> * Your patches have very generic names: 01-shlibs.dpatch  02-sb.dpatch 
>   03-sb-beep.dpatch, and there's multiple unrelated changes per file.
>   I'd prefer if the filenames describe what the patch does, and that you
>   separate the patches per subject. This makes it easy to add, update or
>   remove a specific patch.
Again that's how the package was, I only added 03-sb-beep.dpatch.



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