David wrote: > I have made changes to source package newspost_2.1.1-4, so that a bigger -l (lines) parameter can be given, and and indroduced a new parameter -2 with which it calls another program - such as par2create - to make the desired par2 files. I renamed the dir into newspost-2.1.2.beta. > > *Open question*: Is another person presently working on a new version of newspost, if yes, how can I contact him/her? For a first try, see if you can contact the original upstream author. The newspost web page, including contact information (which may or may not still be valid) appears to be at http://newspost.unixcab.org/ Maybe he will release a new upstream version that includes your changes. I don't have interest in sponsoring the package, but David, please see below for some advice. For the benefit of anyone who *does* want to sponsor newspost, note that it was orphaned by the Debian packager on 23 June 2004 [1]; the last QA upload was 26 March 2005, so some catch-up work will be needed to update the packaging; and it was removed from unstable by ftp-masters at the request of QA on 23 November 2007 [2]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/255807 [2] http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals-2007.txt > When trying to upload the package with dput, then come following error messages: > > david@debian:~/newspost-2.1.2.beta$ dput -P ftp-master debian/newspost.changes That is not going to work; only official Debian Developers and Debian Maintainers are allowed to upload to ftp-master. Consider uploading your package to mentors.debian.net where people can take a look at it. See http://mentors.debian.net/ and http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-intro . > I don't know anything about the file debian/files, so I need help. That particular file is usually generated automatically during a package build. But you'll want to check into the other files in the debian dir. > At present time I want to build a source package only, the binary package I want to make later. OK, but keep in mind that it must be possible to build the binary package from the source package before the package can enter Debian. Also, you are more likely to find packaging errors if you try to build the binary package yourself. > It follows newpost.changes with signature: [snip] The file you named newpost.changes is not in the proper format for a changes file. Changes files of the type that dput takes as argument are automatically generated during a package build by dpkg-buildpackage. They are *not* the same thing as a changelog. I *highly* recommend that you read some documentation before you proceed further, starting with the mentors.debian.net pages above and these: http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide http://wiki.debian.org/HowToPackageForDebian http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#packaging Otherwise you may become very frustrated. Since newspost is not currently in Debian unstable, you should also file an ITP; see this URL: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-newpackage best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@gmail.com> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751
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