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Bug#777500: RFS: birdie/1.1-1 [ITP]



Am Samstag, den 28.02.2015, 19:53 +0100 schrieb Kay Abendroth:
>  Hello,
> 
> regarding my question number 9: I've found the answer myself and put the
> man page file in a directory debian/manpages and created a file
> debian/birdie.manpages.
> 
> But I've two additional questions, which refer to you intial comments.
> 
> 10. the patch should have a proper dep3-style header
> 
> What do you mean by that? Is there a way to check the formatting of
> patch files?

just use quilt to edit your patch's header.
quilt header -e --dep3 gives you a nice template.
Otherwise read http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/

> 11. why is this patch needed? why are you creating the file in the name
> of the upstream authors?
> 
>  birdie-1.1/src/config.vala

Could it be that this file is generated at build time?
(In this case, you would remove it via debian/clean.)

> Regards,
> Kay
> 


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