Re: RFS: fslint (updated package)
Hi,
Maximiliano Curia wrote:
> Hola Pádraig Brady!
>
> El 23/07/2009 a las 16:53 escribiste:
[...]
> A few comments:
> - Standards-Version are a bit old 3.8.0, while 3.8.2 is the current one,
> please check that in furter uploads.
> - Concerning bugs:
> * #511805, should have been answered and closed. findutils is an
> essential
> package, there is no need to declare essential packages as
> dependecies, you added the dependency, and the bug will be closed in
> this upload, there is no harm in this but it's not the best solution.
> * You closed a few debian bugs in a version that never hit Debian
> repositories, that requires some manual tweaking to process the
> correct part of the changelog, please avoid it.
That's ok, it was me who forgot to include the changelog entries when
uploading it.
> * You package version is 2.40-2, which would not include the original
> source in the upload, and requires some manual tweaking to do so,
> please avoid that.
This shouldn't be discouraged either.
> - You need to keep in contact with your mentors, that will accelerate
> your
> uploads, once you gain their trust you might prefer to advocate as a
> debian maintainer, so you can upload your own packages, it might be
> educational to have a new mentor in every upload, but it's quite
> inefficient (you are encouraged to ask for help, though).
He actually sent me a copy of his RFS and I was going to take a look at it
and require him to do proper cleanup this time (on the BTS and the package
itself).
> ""I can't get 2.28 into debian because the mentor process sucks."",
> that's not it.
>
> I'm uploading your package, please consider the previous comments in
> further changes.
>
Cheers,
--
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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