On 9/24/07, Christoph Haas <haas@debian.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:56:57AM +0200, liran tal wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "daloradius".
>
> * Package name : daloradius
> Version : 0.9.3
> Upstream Author : Liran Tal < liran@enginx.com>
> * URL :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/daloradius
This URL is not mentioned in debian/copyright and/or debian/control.
I will add the webpage address to the debian/copyright.
Is there a webpage tag to add in the debian/control file or should I simply
add it to the description?
>
> The package can be found on
mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/daloradius
> - Source repository: deb-src
http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main
> contrib non-free
> - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/daloradius/
> daloradius_0.9.3.dsc
The package just contains the "usr" directory from the upstream tarball.
That's right.
There is just the usr directory. The application is actually located
on /usr/share/daloradius
Is this not ok? should there be other directories?
You also built your package as a native package (no orig.tar.gz +
diff.gz).
Right.
I tried placing an orig.tar.gz tarball actually which contained the package
but dpkg-source complained on some errors which I can't remember
at the moment but at that time it seemed that I was simply doing
something wrong.
Please give the package some more love. Creating Debian packages is
unfortunately non-trivial.
I did find it somewhat cumbersome to get this package as it is to build
with as little lintian warnings and errors as possible.
Though Debian-Love is always present in my heart :-)
Since you are also the upstream I suggest you
ask a fellow Debian developer to create the package for you. Or file a
WNPP "bug" to find someone to create a package (`reportbug wnpp`).
Uhmm, I will check the 'reportbug wnpp' indeed although I thought