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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
www.debian.org - get.debian.net



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