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Bug#706514: RFS: dcraw/9.17-1



Hi Oliver,

> lintian reports three problems with this package, which I don't
> know how to fix:
> 
> P: dcraw: no-upstream-changelog
> There really is no upstream changelog.  What to do?


Id upstream does not ship it, you can do nothing with that.


> W: dcraw source: package-needs-versioned-debhelper-build-depends 9
> 
> The lintian documentation says the following about this:
> "Note if you are using a compat level, which is marked as experimental, such as compat 9 in debhelper 8.1.3, then please override this tag."
> 
> But I'd rather not override anything without explicitly being told to do
> so by a sponsor.

in control file: debhelper (>=9)

> I: dcraw source: debian-watch-file-is-missing
> 
> Upstream doesn't really have a precise location to watch.  The individual
> files that make up the orig.tar.gz appear separately on the upstream
> homepage.  What to do?

If the upstream does not ship tarballs systematically, you can unlikely
create a working watch-file. There is getsource script in the tarball.
Did you check it, whether it works?

> There are two more problems I have with this package:
> 
> a) The quilt patch contains the files Makefile and configure, even though
> those should be created automatically during package building from
> Makefile.in and configure.in (which are also in the patch file).
> However when I remove Makefile and/or configure from the patch,
> then the binaries do not get build at all.  I'm afraid I don't really
> know where to look further for the problem, here.

The patch is really terrible. I would suggest you to use cmake instead
of it. See an attachment. You just need to add all other binaries and
test them.

> b) I know I messed up the versioning, but before messing it up further
> I'd like to get advice on how to proceed.  What should the version
> of my final upload be?

current in sid + 1.

Cheers,

Anton


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