Luis, On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 23:12 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xxxterm". > > * Package name : xxxterm > Version : 1.399-1 > Upstream Author : Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us>, Stevan Andjelkovic <stevan@student.chalmers.se>, Edd Barrett <vext01@gmail.com>, Todd T. Fries <todd@fries.net> > * URL : http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/XXXTerm > * License : ISC > Section : web > > It builds these binary packages: > xxxterm - Minimalist's web browser > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The upload would fix these bugs: 631655 > > My motivation for maintaining this package is: > I've been using xxxterm for a long time now, and I believe other users > could benefit from this package being available on the base Debian > distribution. > > The number of users for this package will probably be a small subset of > all Debian users, as the web browser provided by it seems to have a > focus on security. Thus, web power users will still be willing to user > other browsers such as iceweasel and chromium. > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xxxterm > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xxxterm/xxxterm_1.399-1.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Having a look at your package I find: 1. You're using debhelper compat 7 and also only debhelper >= 7.0.50~ as Build-Depends. Please bump that to 8 2. Since debhelper 7 there's dh which should help clearing out your debian/rules quit a bit. I'd recommend switching to that 3. There's some lintian comments that would improve your package: I: xxxterm: spelling-error-in-binary usr/bin/xxxterm paramters parameters P: xxxterm: no-upstream-changelog I: xxxterm: package-contains-empty-directory usr/lib/ I: xxxterm: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/xxxterm.1.gz:70 I: xxxterm: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/xxxterm.1.gz:71 I: xxxterm: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/xxxterm.1.gz:748 4. Why only install xxxterm.conf as example instead of putting it into /etc/xxxterm.conf where it's required? 5. Your patches seem to not have been pushed back upstream. Did you consider that? Of those I'd be especially interested in 4. - otherwise the package could be uploaded IMHO. -- Best regards, Kilian
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