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Re: RFS: xplanet (updated package)



Ruben Molina scrisse:

> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.0-6
> of the package "xplanet", which I'm adopting.

Here's a quick review of your package, which actually isn't in an
uploadable state:

* Your debian/copyright is lacking large third parties' copyright
assignment like The open group (eg. xplanet/rgb.txt), Apple Computer
(eg. src/libdisplay/DesktopPicture.m), DEC (eg. src/ParseGeom.h) and
other individuals (eg. src/libdisplay/vroot.h). Not everything is under
GPL, either. 
There are some notes about images copyright at xplanet/images/README,
you should mention that too.
While you're at it, I'd really suggest you to completely refactor your
debian/copyright in a more readable manner, collapsing redundant debian
packaging notes and mentioning that the upstream download site has been
now moved to sourceforge.
Also, at your discretion, consider following
http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat (which can help you
track down the mess :)

* You're currently shipping a patch (gcc-4.3-includes) which isn't yet
committed to upstream's SVN, please take care of forwarding it now. 

* What's debian/package.docs for? (Maybe a forgotten example?)

* Try lintian with -Ii to see that it suggests that hyphens are
wrongly used in the manpage.

Otherwise the package looks quite good, and I'll take a deeper look to
your fixed package.

> Kind regards
>  Ruben Molina
 
Ciao, Luca

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