Re: RFS: retext

[Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 01:16:27PM +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> On '--pedantic' check:
> 
> 
> P: retext: no-upstream-changelog
> - it would be better to create it (if it's possibile)

No, it's not. If an upstream changelog is not present, you can contact
upstream and ask if she can provide one, but it's not mandatory. Also,
repacking the upstream tarball to add one is not the way to solve this :)

Few other notes:
* debian/copyright: 
  - you may convert the copyright file to use the DEP5 machine-readable 
    format [0] (and probably you may also want to update the dh-make 
    package to the latest version is Sid :) ).
* debian/changelog: 
  - since this is the first version of the package there's no need to list 
    all the changes you have done there (it's enough a "Initial upload").
  - the first upload should close an ITP bug. refer to [1] for more info.
* debian/rules: 
  - most of the dh_install command can be replaced by entries in a 
    debian/retext.install and debian/retext-wpgen.install files.
    see dh_install(1) for more info.
  - the docs are better installed by dh_installdocs. you may add a 
    debian/<package name>.docs file containing "docs/". see 
    dh_installdocs(1) for more info
  - same for the manpages. see dh_installman(1)
  - the compression of the files should be managed by dh_compress(1) (if 
    you follow the previous two hints this is done automatically).
  - you may use python2 to build and install python software.
    add --with python2 to the dh line and Build-Depends on python-all.
* debian/patches: 
  - there's no need to add the additional files with a patch (e.g. the 
    manpages). you can put them under debian/ and install them from there.
* debian/control: 
  - no need to Build-Depends on libqtcore4, python-qt4 is enough.
  - since this is the first upload to Debian there's no need to Breaks on
    previous package versions.
  - no need to Depends on python, ${python:Depends} is enough if you are
    using python2 in the rules file.
  - the Vcs-* tags are meant for the repository where the Debian packages
    are maintained, not for the upstream repository.
  - dunno why Priority is extra, optional should be enough
  - no need to Build-Depends on gzip.

That's all for now, but there may be other things that I overlooked.

Note that I am not a DD hence I can't upload your package.

Cheers

[0] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#newpackage

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