On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:05:42PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > I assume the Errors are show stoppers... > > 1. Should I strip out the .exe files from the github repository and > ignore any worries about people who might try to build it on Windows? It doesn't matter for Debian. Only the source package contents matter. > 2. The source-is-missing .html/.js files with very long lines - > Should I override them? Or try to wrap the lines? If they are sources in the preferred form for modification, why do they have long and not human-editable lines? If they are not actually sources you need to provide sources and build the resulting files from them. > 3. The embedded-library issues - I assume there is not much choice > but to strip the code out and try and link against the relevant > packaged library? Yes, of course. > Finally is there any way of running the lintian check with out > building the whole package ? Well, how can you check a package that doesn't exist? You can run lintian against the source package to check the source package problems though. > It's 30mb source code and dpkg-buildpackage takes a while. ccache Also, is this a fork of some old mozilla code? I'm not sure we want some old mozilla code in the archive. -- WBR, wRAR
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