Hi, On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:01:19PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Hi, > > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mgen". > > > > * Package name : mgen > > Version : 5.02-1 > > Upstream Author : Naval Research Laboratory <mgen@pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil> > > * URL : http://cs.itd.nrl.navy.mil/work/mgen/index.php > > * License : Open Source > > Section : net > > > > It builds these binary packages: > > mgen - The Multi-Generator for IP network performance tests > > > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > > > Err, no: > > W: mgen source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target build-arch > W: mgen source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target build-indep > W: mgen source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.8.4 (current is 3.9.2) > I: mgen source: debian-watch-contains-dh_make-template > E: mgen: helper-templates-in-copyright > W: mgen: description-synopsis-starts-with-article > I: mgen: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4497kB 92% I think I fixed all issues. Could you take another look? > [...] > > Anyhow, despite these the package looks pretty much ok; and all of the above > should be easy to address. Just two more issues that need to be resolved: > > - The package ships PDF files; please rebuild them from source as part of the > package build process; I suppose all the necessary sources are part of the > package anyhow. Otherwise we will be in trouble and those files will have to > be removed. I removed the pdfs, they contain the same information as the html documentation anyway. > - Your debian/watch file is slightly broken: the final src-mgen-(.*).02.tar.gz > should probably be src-mgen-(.*).tar.gz, otherwise the Debian package will be > reported as being newer than upstream. Yeah, thanks! That was a typo. > Two further nice-to-have changes: Use dh 7 simplified debian/rules; this would > immediately address the first two lintian warnings. Moving debian/copyright to > DEP-5 could go along with the fix of the error reported by lintian. I ran into bug 631674 ;-) I'll move it to DEP-5 when upstream provides a license file. For the moment I've included my email-exchange with upstream regarding the missing license in debian/copyright. I hope that is ok... > Hope this helps, A lot! Thanks! Regards, Raoul
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