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Bug#1117615: RFS: alien/8.95.9-1 [ITA] -- convert and install rpm and other packages



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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