On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 03:07:03PM +0200, Antoine Le Gonidec wrote: Thank you for doing the review. > Le Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 09:58:57PM +0500, Syed Shahrukh a écrit : > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "alien": > > With everything else we discussed fixed already, here comes my actual > review of the package. > > I see you used two lintian overrides, one for the binary package and one > for the source. Both are clearly justified, they were the good way to > handle the errors/warnings you got. On the other hand they lack some > explanatory comment for future maintainers/uploaders. > > Could you, for each one, add a comment in the lintian-overrides files to > explain why these warnings from lintian should be ignored? (a couple > words would be enough, as long as it makes it clear there is an actual > reason for silencing these warnings) > Yes I have now added the comments. > Once this is done, this package should be ready for the actual upload. > > I do have an extra suggestion, but feel free to ignore it. This one is > about the debian/watch file. > > We have a new format for this file that makes them much easier to read > by humans, especially for tarballs fetched from GitHub like the ones you > use. Look for "github.com" in debian-watch(5) man page for the new > syntax, or here for an actual example: > http://git.vv221.fr/debian/jazz2-native/plain/debian/watch Thank you for the suggestion. This is new, and I wasn't aware of it. I have update the watch file and test it to work with latest uscan. > > Once the lintian overrides are explained, please send a new upload that > I’m going to test and most probably upload without any further changes > requested. The debian/watch change could be included too, but this one > is only if you’re convinced that the new format would be nicer to work > with. Changes are pushed to the repository and also package is uploaded to mentor. Regards, Syed Shahrukh Hussain.
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