Re: Bug#702072: RFS: tilda/1.1.4-1 [ITA]

[Lanoxx <lanoxx@gmx.net>]

Hi Anton,

thanks for reviewing my package. I have added a new branch 
tilda-debian-1-1 to my github repository and put the debian/ folder in 
there, more comments below:

On 02/03/13 16:19, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> thanks for working on this package. I think it is ok to switch to a fork
> as the original software is not developed any more.
>
> Some notes/questions on your package:
>
> 1) Remove changelog.new.
> 2) Use VCS for maintaining the package and uncomment corresponding lines
> in control-file.
> 3) Current Standards-version is 3.9.4
> 4) Convert copyright-file to a DEP-5 format, who is copyright-holder
> after 2008?
DONE
> 5) What is debian/rules.small? If it works, why do you keep an old
> version? If you plan to use the current debian/rules, it should be
> cleaned also, using override_dh-commands.
I forgot to remove that, debian/rules is the correct one.
> 6) Lintian's complaining on hardening should be investigated, not just
> simply overridden.
I did investigate, and decided its save to ignore the warnings. Is there 
anything that would indicate its not?
> 7) tilda.dirs, seems, useless.
Its not, the package doesnt build without the tilda.dirs file.
> 8) Clean watch-file. It should be 3-lines long.
DONE
> 9) Your package fails to build:
>
> ================
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
> dh_autoreconf
> Can't exec "autopoint": No such file or directory at
> /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 345.
> autoreconf: failed to run autopoint: No such file or directory
> autoreconf: autopoint is needed because this package uses Gettext
> dh_autoreconf: autoreconf -f -i returned exit code 1
> make: *** [config.status] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> =================
Added autopoint as build dependency, now it should work. But when I run 
pbuilder --build to build it inside a debian chroot, then I still get 
some configure errors. I have to assume that some build dependencies are 
missing, but I really dont know how to fix that since I dont get any 
warnings. I have no real idea what pbuilder is doing inside the chroot 
and how i can reproduce that. If you could help fixing this that would 
be great.
> 10) Do you really need debian/source/options?
No, removed it.
> Cheers,
>
> Anton
Thanks Lanoxx
> On 03/02/2013 02:23 PM, Lanoxx wrote:
> > Package: sponsorship-requests
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear mentors,
> >
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tilda"
> >
> >   * Package name    : tilda
> >     Version         : 1.1.4-1
> >     Upstream Author : Sebastian Geiger <lanoxx@gmx.net>
> >   * URL             : https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda
> >   * License         : GPL-2
> >     Section         : x11
> >
> > It builds those binary packages:
> >
> >    tilda - Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
> >
> > To access further information about this package, please visit the
> > following URL:
> >
> >    http://mentors.debian.net/package/tilda
> >
> >
> > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:
> >
> >    dget -x
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tilda/tilda_1.1.4-1.dsc
> >
> > More information about tilda can be obtained from
> > https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda.
> >
> > I have already spawned a discussion about switching to a new upstream
> > location and becoming new maintainer at this bug #695574 [1].
> >
> > Please also see bug #583248 [2], which states that the current
> > maintainer is MIA since 2010-05-26.
> >
> > Note that I'm targeting unstable not experimental, because I believe
> > that given the amount of bugs my package fixes makes this package more
> > stable than the one which is currently in unstable.
> >
> >   Changes since the last upload:
> >
> >   tilda (1.1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
> >
> >    * New upstream release (Closes: #695574, #692904)
> >    * Added a watch file (Closes: #501739)
> >    * Use x-www-browser as default (Closes: #552505)
> >    * Use word characters setting, thanks to Liu Yubao
> >      <yubao.liu@gmail.com> (Closes: #506855)
> >    * Remove deprecated dpatch and upgrade to packaging format "3.0 quilt"
> >      and update to Standards-Version to 3.9.3 and debhelper to 9,
> >      thanks to Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> (Closes: #664358)
> >    * New maintainer (Sebastian Geiger), thanks to Davide Truffa for his
> >      previous work (Closes: #583248)
> >    * Update tilda.desktop file to be compatible with freedesktop.org,
> >      thanks to Jekyll Wu (Closes: #678129)
> >
> >   -- Sebastian Geiger <lanoxx@gmx.net>  Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:06:09 +0100
> >
> >    Regards,
> >     Sebastian Geiger
> >
> > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695574
> > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583248