Bug#883611: RFS: auter/0.11 (ITP: Bug#880600)

[Juhani Numminen <juhaninumminen0@gmail.com>]

Paolo Gigante kirjoitti 05.12.2017 klo 19:54:
> Dear mentors,
>
> ...
> Any assistance with sponsorship and packaging guidance would be greatly appreciated. In addition, we are very eager and willing to have any suggestions, requests and/or bugs raised against the auter github page.

Hi Paolo,

I cannot upload your package into Debian, but I suggest to look into at 
least these following items, which I think most potential mentors will 
be interested in. And, even after these, there will probably be yet more 
things to change, depending on the mentor.

* Why not Section: admin?

* The package should not be "native": please create a file in
debian/source/format with contents "3.0 (quilt)". More info at [1].

* Please fix the several lintian warnings (to see them all:
lintian -EviI --pedantic).

* When building the package I get:

> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package auter: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}

${shlibs:Depends} brings in dependencies on shared libraries. It should 
be removed since the binary package in question is "Architecture: all" 
i.e. architecture-independent.

* You could update to debhelper compat 10 as well.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq

Regards,
Juhani