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Bug#708237: RFS: regexxer/0.10-2 [ITA] -- friendly greeter



On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Neil Wallace <rowinggolfer@gmail.com> wrote:
>   Dear mentors,
>
>   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "regexxer"

Hi Neil,

I'm willing to sponsor this package. A few comments first.

Lintian isn't happy with your changelog:

W: regexxer: debian-changelog-has-wrong-weekday 2013-08-26 is a Monday
N:
N:    The date in the changelog entry is not consistent with the actual
N:    weekday. Either the date is wrong or the weekday is wrong.
N:
N:    To avoid problems like this, consider using a tool like dch(1) or
N:    date(1) to generate the date. Example:
N:
N:      $ date -R -ud '2013-11-05 23:59:59'
N:      Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:59:59 +0000
N:
N:    Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
N:
N:    Check: changelog-file, Type: binary
N:


Also, you should close the ITA bug in the changelog using the format:
(Closes: #569345)

Since we're fixing the changelog anyway, it's a bit confusing that you say you:

Remove debian/patches/glib-single-include.patch

but then:

debian/patches/glib-single-include.patch:
    Updated to fix one more include.

and of course that patch is present in the package.

If you clean these little things up, I'll upload the package. Lintian
points out a few other things that would be nice, but since the
package is already in Debian I don't consider them blockers. You
should look into fixing them in a future upload though:

W: regexxer: hardening-no-relro usr/bin/regexxer
N:
N:    This package provides an ELF binary that lacks the "read-only
N:    relocation" link flag. This package was likely not built with the
N:    default Debian compiler flags defined by dpkg-buildflags. If built using
N:    dpkg-buildflags directly, be sure to import LDFLAGS.
N:
N:    Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening for details.
N:
N:    Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
N:
N:    Check: binaries, Type: binary, udeb
N:
I: regexxer: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/bin/regexxer
N:
N:    This package provides an ELF binary that lacks the use of fortified libc
N:    functions. Either there are no potentially unfortified functions called
N:    by any routines, all unfortified calls have already been fully validated
N:    at compile-time, or the package was not built with the default Debian
N:    compiler flags defined by dpkg-buildflags. If built using
N:    dpkg-buildflags directly, be sure to import CPPFLAGS.
N:
N:    NB: Due to false-positives, Lintian ignores some unprotected functions
N:    (e.g. memcpy).
N:
N:    Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening and
N:    http://bugs.debian.org/673112 for details.
N:
N:    Severity: normal, Certainty: wild-guess
N:
N:    Check: binaries, Type: binary, udeb
N:

Thanks!

-- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio

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