Re: changelog-should-mention-nmu

[Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:52:05PM +0100, chaica wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Uploading my package on mentors.debian.net, I got this message:
> 
> W: yougrabber source: changelog-should-mention-nmu
> N:
> N:   When you NMU a package, that fact should be mentioned on the first
> N:   line in the changelog entry. Use the words "NMU" or "Non-maintainer
> N:   upload" (case insensitive).
> N:   
> N:   Maybe you didn't intend this upload to be a NMU, in that case,
> please
> N:   doublecheck that the most recent entry in the changelog is
> N:   byte-for-byte identical to the maintainer or one of the uploaders.
> N:
> W: yougrabber source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 0.29.2-1
> N:
> N:   A source NMU should have a Debian revision of '-x.x'. This is to
> N:   prevent stealing version numbers from the maintainer (and the
> -x.x.x
> N:   version numbers are reserved for binary-only NMU's).
> N:   
> N:   Maybe you didn't intend this upload to be a NMU, in that case,
> please
> N:   doublecheck that the most recent entry in the changelog is
> N:   byte-for-byte identical to the maintainer or one of the uploaders.
> N:
> 
> My package is the first debian package for this soft. My
> debian/changelog is the following:
> 
> yougrabber (0.29.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Initial release.
> 
>  -- carl <chaica@ohmytux.com>  Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:42:20 +0100

Your name/email matches no entry in Maintainer/Uploaders-fields from
debian/control file.

You can run lintian and linda also locally before upload to check for
this kind of stuff.


Cheers,
Michael