Re: ITS: homebank
On Ven, Giugno 1, 2007 00:16, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 22:45:01 +0200 (CEST)
>
> 1. The long description can be improved. The use of 'even more!' is not
ideal and some of the features (like import/export) could do with some
more detail. The "standard" application in this area is gnucash (I was a
gnucash developer at one time) and your long description should follow
that template and tell the user how homebank differs from the "standard"
app in the field. For one thing, you should make a big deal about how
quickly homebank starts up compared to gnucash (which
> probably has a LOT to do with the vastly reduced number of
> dependencies).
I hope now it's ok...
> 2. I think this package could do with a split to give a
> homebank-common containing the images and translations. Some of the SVG
files are very large - I would be particularly interested if upstream
were willing to consider smaller graphics and less buttons on the
toolbars (think embedded).
splitted in homebank-common and homebank
> 3. Standards-Version: 3.7.2.2
> That should just be:
> Standards-Version: 3.7.2
fixed
> 4. The 3.3 version string seems a bit misleading - the ChangeLog doesn't
seem to contain records prior to 3.2. Not much you can do about that but
be prepared for users expecting a package with a much longer history -
users may expect it to be more stable than if it was version 0.3.3
(which is closer to how it looks to me).
I agree...
> 5. Please ask upstream to make it clear in the app that Help|Contents
requires an internet connection - this action has the F1 shortcut key
which most users would expect to provide offline documentation, not
online - especially as the Help menu specifically includes an online
help menu item which takes you to a different site. This is just a case
of preempting bug reports. I would encourage you to encourage upstream
to provide offline documentation - HTML is fine - via doc-base and a
homebank-doc package.
ok, I'll contact the author...
> 6. the watch file is broken:
> homebank-3.3$ uscan -dehs --no-download
> <dehs>
> <package>homebank</package>
> <debian-uversion>3.3</debian-uversion>
> <debian-mangled-uversion>3.3</debian-mangled-uversion>
> <upstream-version>3.3_unstable</upstream-version>
> <upstream-url>http://homebank.free.fr/public/homebank-3.3_unstable.tar.gz</upstream-url>
<status>Newer version available</status>
>
> Use this watch file instead:
> # Compulsory line, this is a version 3 file
> version=3
>
> http://homebank.free.fr/public/homebank-(.*)_[a-z]*\.tar\.gz
fixed, thanks for the suggestion.
thanks for the interest and for the review Neil, I hope that now the
package is ready for the upload... :)
The updated package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/homebank
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/homebank/homebank_3.3-1.dsc
kind regards,
francesco
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Francesco Namuri
http://www.namuri.it/
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