Re: RFS: slimrat

[Paul McEnery <pmcenery@gmail.com>]

2010/1/21 Michal Čihař <nijel@debian.org>:
> Hi
>
> Dne Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:01:40 +0000
> Paul McEnery <pmcenery@gmail.com> napsal(a):
>
>> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
>> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/slimrat
>> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
>> main contrib non-free
>> - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/slimrat/slimrat_1.0-1.dsc
>
> debian/watch seems to be wrong:
>
> uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
>  http://slimrat.googlecode.com/files/ failed: 404 Not Found
>


Thanks for your feedback Michal.

I have resolved this issue now.


> You could use source format 3.0 (quilt) instead of applying patches
> manually.
>
> I think you should not override, use debian/clean instead. Also using
> debian/links for dh_links could cleanup debian/rules a bit.
>
> You should not install ChangeLog as separate docs, dh_installchangelogs
> installs it anyway.
>
> Please do not use own patch headers, use DEP-3 compliant headers
> instead.
>

I have now implemented source format 3.0 (quilt), and split the
package into two packages:

slimrat (full command line and gui)
slimrat-nox (command line only)

I'm not sure if I have done this correctly. My thinking is that if you
want the non-gui version, then you will simply install slimrat-nox. If
you later want to upgrade to the gui version, then an installation of
slimrat will "replace" slimrat-nox.


> Lintian does complain:
>
> W: slimrat: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man8/slimrat-gui.8.gz
> W: slimrat: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man8/slimrat.8.gz
>
>

I'll search the web, but I'm not sure how to resolve this. Hopefully
someone on debian-perl can give me a steer - as they are created with
`pod2man'.

Many thanks for all the feedback. Its much appreciated. The latest
package is available for download (without lintian man-page issues
resolved):

- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/slimrat/slimrat_1.0-1.dsc

Regards,

Paul.