On Sunday 08 July 2007 13:05, Paul Wise wrote: > On 7/8/07, Bruno Costacurta <pubmb01@skynet.be> wrote: > > > Any reason for using debhelper 4 instead of 5? > > > > I used dpkg-buildpackage to build package secpanel 0.5.2-1 > > Should I avoid dpkg-xxx and prefer debhelper tools ? > > By debhelper 5, I mean debian/compat 5 and debian/control > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5) Corrected. > > > > Have you sent the manual page upstream? > > > > Sorry. What do you mean ? > > Part of a Debian maintainer's activities are to contribute useful > changes to upstream. For many upstream projects, manual pages and > other documentation are useful. Here, 'send the manual page upstream' > means file a bug or send a mail asking for the upstream authors to > integrate the manual page you have written into their > software/package. Currently did not wrote any specific man. I'm trying to be the maintainer of this orphaned package. I included new upstream version into 0.5.2-1. Also had a look to previous (quite old: more than two years old) still open bugs but was not able to reproduce these bugs. Bye, Bruno > > > > You have no ' Homepage: <url>' in the package description > > > > Is this mandatory ? > > Nope, just a good idea. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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