Re: RFS: monkey
Hi Roman,
first of all: thank you very much for your help!
Creating the package with Standards-Version 3.7.3 shows errors like
"Version you are using is newer than the latest one. Please update
lintian". (I don't remember the exact error message) But all my
packages are up2date.
I made some changes in the package regarding dh_installinit,
dh_installchangelog. I also created a new init-script with
start-stop-daemon and opened a wnpp bug (#468183)
Also lintian is fine now.
Should i create a new 0.9.2-1 version with my changes or is it a better
solution to make a 0.9.2-2 version?
I think uploading the same version to mentors is not possible, right?
Thanks again,
Thorsten Schmale
On 26/02/08 14:39 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le Tuesday 26 February 2008 14:09:34 Thorsten Schmale, vous avez écrit :
> > Dear mentors,
>
> Hi !
>
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "monkey".
>
> Few remarks on your package.
>
> > It builds these binary packages:
> > monkey - a small http server
>
> * Could you provide more informations, we already have other http server, so
> why this one in particular ?
>
> * in debian/control:
> - Standards-Version: 3.7.2, should be 3.7.3
> - "a" small http server: should avoid the "a" I think. Also, a more specific
> description would be good (cf up)
> * In debian/rules:
> - Why do you pass -n option to dh_installinit ? This generates code snippets
> for maintainer scripts that turns out to be exactly what you have..
> - You don't have to move changelog in rules, just pass the good name to
> dh_installchangelog
> - Same for monkey.conf, you should use a install file or dh_install...
> * in debian/changelog
> - You should open a ITP bug (use "reportbug wnpp" in command line) and close
> it in the initial changelog.
> * Daemon init:
> - You perhaps could run the daemon under a specific user, not nobody. You
> will then need to create the user in maintainer scripts. You can look at
> other mackaged daemons for that.
> - Also the init script doesn't look very standard (not tested though). In
> particular it doesn't call start-stop-daemon. It also has a lintian warning
> (see below). Have you compared with other packaged daemons ??
>
> Appart from those remarks, you have lintian issues (some of which are reported
> already...):
> 14:32 toots@ras-macintosh /tmp/monkey-0.9.2%
> lintian -viI ../monkey_0.9.2-1_amd64.changes
> N: Setting up lab in /tmp/ie1BcMJmsS ...
> N: Processing changes file monkey_0.9.2-1_amd64.changes ...
> N: Processing 2 packages...
> N: ----
> N: Processing source package monkey (version 0.9.2-1) ...
> W: monkey source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 29
> N:
> N: A rule in the debian/rules file for this package calls the package's
> N: clean or distclean target with a line like:
> N:
> N: -$(MAKE) distclean
> N:
> N: The leading "-" tells make to ignore all errors. Normally this is done
> N: for packages using Autoconf since Makefile may not exist. However,
> N: this line ignores all other error messages, not just the missing
> N: Makefile error. It's better to use:
> N:
> N: [ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
> N:
> N: so that other error messages from the clean or distclean rule will
> N: still be caught (or just remove the "-" if the package uses a static
> N: makefile).
> N:
> W: monkey source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.2 (current is 3.7.3)
> N:
> N: The source package refers to a 'Standards-Version' that is starting to
> N: get out of date, compared to current Policy. You can safely ignore
> N: this warning, but please consider updating the package to current
> N: Policy.
> N:
> N: ----
> N: Processing binary package monkey (version 0.9.2-1) ...
> I: monkey: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/monkey.8.gz:17
> N:
> N: Manual page seems to contain a hyphen where a minus sign was intended.
> N: '-' chars are interpreted as hyphens (U+2010) by groff, not as minus
> N: signs (U+002D). Since options to programs use minus signs (U+002D),
> N: this means for example in UTF-8 locales that you cannot cut&paste
> N: options, nor search for them easily.
> N:
> N: '-' must be escaped ('\-') to be interpreted as minus. If you really
> N: intend a hyphen, write it as '\(hy' to emphasise that fact. See
> N: groff(7) and especially groff_char(7) for details, and also the thread
> N: starting with
> N: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg01481
> N: .html
> N:
> N: If you use some tool that converts your documentation to groff format,
> N: it might be possible that this tool converts dashes of any kind to
> N: groff hyphens, while the safe way of converting dashes is usually to
> N: convert them to '\-'.
> N:
> N: Because this error can occur very often we show only the first 10
> N: occurrences for each man page and give the number of suppressed
> N: occurrences. If you want to see all warnings, run lintian with the
> N: -d/--debug option.
> N:
> I: monkey: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/monkey.8.gz:20
> I: monkey: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/monkey.8.gz:21
> I: monkey: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/monkey.8.gz:22
> I: monkey: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/monkey.8.gz:23
> I: monkey: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/monkey.8.gz:24
> W: monkey: init-d-script-stops-in-s-runlevel /etc/init.d/banana
> N:
> N: This /etc/init.d script specifies the S runlevel in Default-Stop in
> N: its LSB keyword section. The S runlevel is not a real runlevel and is
> N: only used during boot. There is no way to switch to it and hence no
> N: use for stop scripts for it, so S should be removed from Default-Stop.
> N:
> W: monkey: new-package-should-close-itp-bug
> N:
> N: This package appears to be the first packaging of a new upstream
> N: software package (there is only one changelog entry and the Debian
> N: revision is 1), but it does not close any bugs. The initial upload of
> N: a new package should close the corresponding ITP bug for that package.
> N:
> N: This warning can be ignored if the package is not intended for Debian
> N: or if it is a split of an existing Debian package.
> N:
> N: Refer to Developers Reference, section 5.1 for details.
> N:
> N: Removing /tmp/ie1BcMJmsS ...
>
>
>
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