Bug#675701: RFS: ptop/3.6.2-7
Hi Bas,
I suggest to do the following changes:
- Remove machine/m_gnu.c from debian/patches/ptop_hurd,
- Add "cp -f machine/m_linux.c machine/m_gnu.c" to debian/rules,
- Add debian/clean containing "machine/m_gnu.c",
- Add similar changes for the other arch(s) with the same problem,
- Rename debian/patches/ptop_hurd to debian/patches/archs,
- Update "Architecture:" in debian/control.
I'm not sure about removing hppa and powerpcspe from ptop's archs list because
I don't know the issue with debhelper on these archs. Is it really a permanent
problem ? Maybe ptop can have "Architecture: any".
This page
http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=debhelper&suite=sid
states "No entry in hppa database, check Packages-arch-specific" but this page
https://buildd.debian-ports.org/quinn-diff/sid/Packages-arch-specific
seems to fail at this time.
I looked this up:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
"must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright information"
"should name the original authors"
I see in the file LICENSE that William LeFebvre is copyright holder but that is
not yet mentioned in debian/copyright. That's a "must" for debian-policy.
I see that there are quite some authors. Mentioning them in debian/copyright
is a "should" for debian-policy. To help you with listing them, I found these
authors so far:
Andrew Herbert
Andrew S. Townley
Anthony Baxter
Ariel Faigon
Christos Zoulas
Joep Vesseur
John Haxby
John Schimmel
Kevin Schmidt
Larry McVoy
Mike Hopkirk
Richard Henderson
Sandeep Cariapa
Thorsten Lockert
Torsten Kasch
William LeFebvre
Rich Holland
Mark Wong
I think that the list is pretty complete, but it's possible that I've missed a
few. I have left out the e-mail addresses to prevent complaints about spam. I
suggest to add this list to debian/copyright. It's a "should" for
debian-policy.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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