On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:57:53PM +0100, Knut Arild Erstad wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "blimp". > IANADD, but some general comments until a sponsor comes along. You don't seem to have an Intent to Package filed. ITPs prevent code duplication, unneccessary packages and other problems. It should be closed in your changelog. [1] debian/changelog: You can squash your entry for 1.0-1, because it was never in the archive. Close your ITP as above. debian/copyright: you should acknowlege the copyright of the additional resources you include (jiu). On a related note, you should also check whether jiu is already in the archive and depend on it, instead of including it. The short description isn't very good; on seeing that, what makes me want to install it? Seems you build blimp, dcraw and some java classes all in the same package. IMO, you should split these so that either blimp becomes a multiple binary package, building seperate binary packages and having appropriate dependencies, or dcraw, for example, might be useful to other maintainers and should be a completely new source package. Later, when you or another maintainer wants to use these components for something else, it is trivial. Finally you should get rid of cruft and comments in debian/rules, to make it easy to read. You could also investigate debhelper 7, which makes this a lot easier. [1] http://debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#newpackage Hope that helps, -- Jonathan Wiltshire PGP/GPG: 0xDB800B52 / 4216 F01F DCA9 21AC F3D3 A903 CA6B EA3E DB80 0B52
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