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Re: RFS: l2tp-ipsec-vpn



Hi Michael,

thank you so much for this review.

I addressed and solved all the issues and uploaded the changes to
mentors.debian.net.

BTW I'm still looking for a sponsor to upload this package.

Regards
Werner



On 07/30/2011 01:22 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Hi Werner,
>
> [...]
>
> I've taken another look at your package. For reference, I've used
>
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/l2tp-ipsec-vpn/l2tp-ipsec-vpn_1.0.0-1.dsc
>
> dated 29-Jul-2011 09:46.
>
> The first thing I stumbled upon was the orig.tar.gz that doesn't match the
> upstream one. Not only do md5sums differ, but the actual contents does:
>
> (... diffstat output)
> 125 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 404 deletions(-)
>
> Although these changes only concern revision control ids, it is IMHO not
> acceptable to have orig.tar.gz differ in such a way from upstream's tar.gz.
>
> Further comments:
>
> - The description is clearly improved and the first stanza is appropriate;
>   others, however, should probably only go in some README file. Please see
>   Debian Policy about this, Section 3.4, which provides a very nice guideline
>   what should (not) be included.
>   (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions)
> - debian/postinst:
>   * service rsyslog restart || true   -- no, there is no service command in
>     general in Debian. And why restart a foreign service!?
>   * Why use gksu when su should do the trick? I really wouldn't want
>     to do system administration remotely with GUI su popping up.
> - The package build-depends on (and indeed appears to require) libopensc2-dev,
>   which unfortunately is no longer available in Debian. Could you find a way
>   around that, given that you are upstream? Otherwise please speak to the opensc
>   maintainer in Debian about this.
>
> Thanks a lot for your work,
> Michael
>

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