Bug#675701: ptop/3.6.2-7

[Bas van den Dikkenberg <bas@dikkenberg.net>]

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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Bart Martens [mailto:bartm@master.debian.org] Namens Bart Martens
Verzonden: dinsdag 5 juni 2012 7:20
Aan: Bas van den Dikkenberg; 675701@bugs.debian.org
Onderwerp: 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,
 done
- Add "cp -f machine/m_linux.c machine/m_gnu.c" to debian/rules,
  Not done, i adjusted the configure file to use m_linux.c so no copy is needed
- Add debian/clean containing "machine/m_gnu.c",
  Not done, i adjusted the configure file to use m_linux.c so no cleaning is needed
- Add similar changes for the other arch(s) with the same problem,
- Rename debian/patches/ptop_hurd to debian/patches/archs,
  done
- Update "Architecture:" in debian/control.
  Done

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"

Added to copyright

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

Except Mark Wong i added them as coauthors,
Do I need to add there email address also ?

If not oke please email, if uploaded a new version to mentors

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