Bug#777651: RFS: syncterm/20141022+dfsg-1 [ITP]
El 20/03/15 a las 16:54, Antti Järvinen escibió:
> Ragnarok wrote:
>> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "syncterm"
>
> Great. I'm no DD so I can't sponsor your package but I can give
> comments nonetheless. So, I have following things I don't understand:
> - Is there specific need to list libncurses etc. dependencies in
> debian/control, should ${shlibs:Depends} take care of that? Or
> you want a very specific version? Ncurses is still fairly standard
> stuff.
Ok. i just add the depends that upstream say, i'm sure that can change
to ${shlibs:Depends} i will fix
> - The zmodem license is interesting as they say "don't distributed
> modifications" -> does a patch count as modification? As a sw
> developer I would say "yes" but someone else needs to clarify
> that. Anyway, if they say "no modifications" and then we find
> urgent need to patch zmodem (say, a serious security flaw) then
> the options are to remove zmodem or remove whole package? .. is
> zmodem still in active development? I remember having used that
> after x- and ymodem protocols went out of fashion some ~20 years ago :
I think that this code will never change anymore.
> - Good: watch file is present
> Bad: according to "uscan --report" it points to no sw version
>
Yes im package a daily snapshoot until the mayor release 1.0 (soon) will
piblished.
> In addition to that, nothing big plugs my eye. Sw even builds, too bad
> my supramodem2400 is out of service so I can't really really try it
> out.
You can test syncterm and connect using the telnet protocol to many bbs
that are still online =)
thanks for your review, i will working on your suggests!
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