Re: RFS: windowlab (QA upload, fixes RC bug)
On Saturday 21 June 2008, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Hi!
Hi,
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> > Your changes seems to bring improvements..., yet could you please also
> > fix debian/rules so that both the binary-arch (buildd's call
> > `/usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules binary-arch') and binary-indep targets
> > exist (see Policy 4.9) and so that `fakeroot debian/rules binary' works
> > as well.
>
> Done. Thanks for noticing.
Uploaded.
> > > I also changed the packaging to use debhelper and quilt instead of
> > > cdbs, and updated the package to conform to the latest version of
> > > Debian policy.
> >
> > Did you check with
> > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz since
> > debian/changelog only reads "Bump Standards Version to 3.8.0", but
> > doesn't list the exact changes done to align the package with 3.8.0, or
> > there were no changes needed to comply with 3.8.0; if any please say so,
> > probably by means of sub-bullets ;-)
>
> There are several changes: the Homepage field in debian/control, the
> README.source, and the get-orig-source target. These changes are listed in
> the changelog. As two of them are already sub-bullets of other changes, I
> think it isn't a good idea to move them.
Fine.
> > By the way, if you need a more expressive get-orig-source you can borrow
> > some bits from the stealth package for instance.
>
> I added an md5sum check in the get-orig-source target for windowlab.
> The get-orig-source from stealth seems to require to be started in the
> package directory in order to inspect debian/changelog and doesn't leave
> the generated tarball in the current directory, which doesn't seem policy
> compliant, so I did not do this in windowlab.
Yes, it was created after svn-buildpackage default layout
(package/{trunk,tags,branches,tarballs}), but it is probably a good idea not
to occupy the get-orig-source target for that, but use another one instead.
Thanks for the good catch.
> I uploaded an updated package to mentors:
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/windowlab/windowlab_1.34-1.dsc
>
> Thanks for the review!
At least the updated package is better than the one currently found in the
archive ;-) As a further improvement you can use something like ucf for
instance to gracefully handle configuration files in /etc/X11/windowlab/.
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