Hi Samuel, yes, I think you now can give that a try. There are some tips on how to get a sponsor at: https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors If you choose to go the RFS way, you can get a template for filling out this kind of bug at: https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto/exposong Please carefully go through this template and update its content accordingly. Some of the placeholders in there are pretty obvious, but others can easily been overlooked. Thanks for your work on Debian and good luck in finding a sponsor Daniel Am Montag, den 01.07.2013, 13:32 +0200 schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: > Hi Daniel, > > thanks for your help, I fixed the remaining warnings. > Now I guess I can request sponsorship for the package. > > Samuel > Am 01.07.2013 12:42, schrieb Daniel Beyer: > > Hi Samuel, > > > > you should fix everything lintian reports, even the pedantic ones. > > Sometimes it might become necessary to override lintian, but with the > > remaining ones in your package, I don't think this needs to be done: > > > > > > W: exposong source: empty-debian-diff > > I suggest you remove the /debian directory from the upstream tarball, as > > it is recommended here: > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/empty-debian-diff.html > > > > > > I: exposong source: missing-debian-source-format > > This one is easy to fix. Simply add a file /debian/source/format > > containing the following line: > > 3.0 (quilt) > > > > > > P: exposong: no-upstream-changelog > > The tarball that is found at > > http://exposong.googlecode.com/files/exposong-0.8.tar.gz contains an > > upstream changelog (/CHANGELOG.txt). I wonder why your > > exposong_0.8.orig.tar.gz on mentors.debian.net does not contains this. > > If it would be in your tarball, lintian would be satisfied... > > > > > > BTW.: Your /debian directory contains some files ending with '~'. Those > > looks like some backups generated by your texteditor automatically. I > > suggest you delete those - or at least drop them out of your > > packaging... > > > > > > Greetings > > Daniel > > > > > > Am Montag, den 01.07.2013, 12:14 +0200 schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: > >> Hi, > >> > >> can someone again have a look please: > >> https://mentors.debian.net/package/exposong > >> > >> I fixed most of the warnings. Is it neccessary to fix _every_ warning or > >> is the package in a good shape to be include in Debian? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Samuel > >> Am 26.06.2013 13:24, schrieb Tobias Frost: > >>> Am Mittwoch, den 26.06.2013, 11:40 +0200 schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> Do I really need to have a manpage for my program? > >>>> And what is a watch file? > >>>> > >>> Yes, you need a manpage, see policy 12.1 > >>> (It will also create the lintian warning binary-without-manpage) > >>> > >>> A watch file helps to detect if there is a new upstream version. > >>> See uscan(1), http://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch/ and the policy 5.22 > >>> > >>> coldtobi -- Daniel Swiss
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