Bug#820733: Guidelines for sensible package synopsis (was: Bug#820733: RFS: Series/1.0 [ITP] -- Keep track of your favourite TV series)

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hi again,

stuff to do:

fix lintian, make a real copyright file, fix flags, fix useless files, convert the format to quilt...

come back if you don't know how to fix issues, when you have a larger userbase, and when you learn how
to tag release, remove useless stuff and *not* commit binaries on git :)


and the package has to build on a clean pbuilder/sbuild environment


there is a lot of work to do here!
(I suggest you to go on irc oftc and ask on -mentors, or click on the link on mentors website, each
lintian warning has an explanation that helps in fixing it)


cheers,

G.


Il Martedì 12 Aprile 2016 20:57, Giorgio Sartore <mani.ddev@gmail.com> ha scritto:



Hi Gianfranco,
thank you for your answer. I've uploaded the package to 
https://mentors.debian.net/package/series
I'm almost sure I made a few mistakes, so please tell me what to do to fix them.
Best regards
Giorgio
Il 12/apr/2016 14:28, "Gianfranco Costamagna" <locutusofborg@debian.org> ha scritto:

Hi Giorgio
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>http://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
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>this should help.
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>cheers,
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>G.
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>Il Martedì 12 Aprile 2016 13:36, Giorgio Sartore <mani.ddev@gmail.com> ha scritto:
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>Hi all,
>thank you for your hints. I'll update the synopsis as soon as possibile.
>I know that I've uploaded the source code yesterday, but I'm working on it since about a month, in my free time. The project started as a personal program, recently I thought that it could be useful to other people. So, I'd like to share it with all Debian users.
>Anyway, can you please guide me through this process? It's my first time. May I have some chances to get it published?
>Thank you very much.
>Regards,
>Giorgio
>Il 12/apr/2016 07:30, "Ben Finney" <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> ha scritto:
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>Tiago Ilieve <tiago.myhro@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> Hi Sartore,
>>>
>>> On 11 April 2016 at 16:36, Sartore Giorgio (Mani) <mani.ddev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > series - keep track of your favourite TV series
>>>
>>> […] I would like to ask you to close this bug and open a new one when
>>> the package is more mature and have a few more users.
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>>When starting that Debian package, please follow the guidelines for the
>>package description.
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>>For example:
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>>    frobnicator of grellicules
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>>The test to apply is detailed in the Developer's Reference §6.2.2:
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>>    Technically this is a noun phrase minus articles, as opposed to a
>>    verb phrase. A good heuristic is that it should be possible to
>>    substitute the package name and synopsis into this formula:
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>>        The package ‘name’ provides {a,an,the,some} synopsis.
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>>So, the synopsis “keep track of your favourite TV series” makes that
>>sentence:
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>>    The package ‘series’ provides a keep track of your favourite TV series.
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>>This doesn't make sense, and so the synopsis should be re-written to be
>>a noun phrase.
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>>--
>> \       “It is a part of probability that many improbable things will |
>>  `\                       happen.” —Aristotle, _Poetics XXV_, 335 BCE |
>>_o__)                                                                  |
>>Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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