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Re: RFS: whohas (new upstream)



On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire
<debian@jwiltshire.org.uk> wrote:

> I have uploaded whohas 0.22-1 to m.d.n, which is a new upstream
> integrating a lot of the bugs, and some tweaks to the packaging because
> of his changes.
...
> I've also included a NEWS file detailing the patches
> that are still active.

I don't think that is an appropriate use of NEWS.Debian, documenting
them in the patch headers should be enough. You might want to check
policy/devref about this though.

Some other things:

You install intro.html but not the css/images in html_assets/.

Might want to ask upstream to fix install.sh a bit so you can use it:

support something like automake/autoconf's --prefix and DESTDIR.
install the html and intro where a command-line parameter says.
fix it to make /usr/local the default prefix since /usr is for system packages

You don't specify which version of the GPL the packaging is under.

Listing all the distros supported may not be a good idea because this
will change over time and thus add work for those translating Debian
package descriptions.

Please add some debtags:

http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/edit.html?pkg=whohas

Please also add a screenshot of 0.22-1 (make sure to put in the right version):

http://screenshots.debian.net/guidelines
http://screenshots.debian.net/upload

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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