Bug#670334: Sponsoring of notion, a first look
Hi Axel,
thank you very much for your comments.
> a few observations (without having gone too deep yet, so I might have overseen
> some reasoning):
>
> notion_3+2012042300.orig.tar.gz from your package and
> notion-3-2012042300-src.tar.gz from SF seem to differ:
>
> 0ffd57a75f2c1a75ce551b3baef1fee0 notion_3+2012042300.orig.tar.gz
> 96d004374e92e3188608a39afea2d75f notion-3-2012042300-src.tar.gz
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 abe tar 754121 May 16 15:29 notion_3+2012042300.orig.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 abe tar 762655 Apr 23 18:42 notion-3-2012042300-src.tar.gz
>
> Is this on purpose?
The files in the two archives are the same according to a recursive md5sum,
only the parent directories are called differently (we use 3-... as an
upstream version, which we change to 3+... when importing into the Debian git
repository to comply with [1]) and some file status information differs
(maybe/probably for the same reason).
> The upstream ChangeLog says "(The ChangeLog will be generated by
> release scripts from svn logs)" -- looks like packaging a VCS
> snapshot. But the version suggests that an official upstream release
> and not a snapshot is packaged. Also such a ChangeLog stub should IMHO
> not show up in the Debian package as it's useless.
Arnout has dropped the changelog, thanks.
> Even if mentors.d.n hasn't found relevant lintian warnings, the new
> lintian does. :-)
>
> [hardening flags]
We have enabled hardening flags through a Debian patch to the build system. A
few Lintian warnings remain, but according to a discussion in #debian-mentors,
these are false positives.
Regards,
Philipp
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/first.en.html#namever
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