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Re: RFS: bzr-diffstat



Hi

Dne Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:07:34 +0000
"David Futcher" <bobbo@ubuntu.com> napsal(a):

> On 29/10/2008, Michal Čihař <nijel@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Lintian -I:
> >
> > I: bzr-diffstat source: debian-watch-file-is-missing
> > I: bzr-diffstat: package-contains-empty-directory usr/bin/
> > I: bzr-diffstat: package-contains-empty-directory usr/sbin/
> >
>   Extra directories removed. The package is based completely on bzr
> checkouts, how should I write a watchfile for this? I couldnt think of
> any way to do it.

Then it is okay not to have it. Anyway you might try to persuade
upstream to make releases...
 
> > debian/copyright:
> >
> > You write GPL2 or later, while setup.py says GPLV2. Anyway upstream
> > should include more license information.
> 
> That was my fault. I double checked with upstream who confirmed it was
> just GPLv2. Fixed.

debian/copyright should also point to full license
text, /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 in this case.

> > Other:
> >
> > I think it would be better to install NEWS as changelog using
> > dh_changelog.
> 
> Is this really necessary? At the moment installing things like that
> are controlled by cdbs, so using dh_installchangelogs would make
> debian/rules much more confusing and more difficult to maintain (not
> ideal).

I guess that setting DEB_INSTALL_CHANGELOGS_ALL=NEWS would do the job,
but I'm neither cdbs expert nor fan.

> > Having debian directory in upstream and patching is not the best way to
> > go. I think you should remove it from upstream and distribute it in
> > Debian diff.
> >
>  Sorry, that was me creating the orig.tar.gz incorrectly from the bzr
> branch. Fixed in latest upload.

Anyway when you create the tarball, you should provide at
least debian/README.source describing how to recreate it
and preferably also get-orig-source target in debian/rules, which would
do it.

Also I just noticed, that tests/blackbox is not installed, but
tests/__init__.py is and it references to blackbox...

-- 
	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com

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