Re: 5.10.0-RC2 uploaded to experimental

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 12:35:29PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > I've uploaded an initial package of 5.10.0 to experimental.
> 
> Hmm, I neither see this in the archive nor in NEW?

It got rejected by Joerg due to:
| --- lintian check for libperl5.10_5.10.0~rc2-1_amd64.deb ----
| E: libperl5.10: md5sums-control-file-is-empty
| W: libperl5.10: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
| E: libperl5.10: usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency perl
| 
| ---- linda check for libperl5.10_5.10.0~rc2-1_amd64.deb ----
| E: libperl5.10; Package has a /usr/share/doc/<pkg> symlink, but no dependancy
| 
| ---- contents of libperl5.10_5.10.0~rc2-1_amd64.deb ----
| drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-12-01 00:51 ./
| drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-12-01 00:50 ./usr/
| drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-12-01 00:50 ./usr/share/
| drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-12-01 00:50 ./usr/share/doc/
| lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2007-12-01 00:50 ./usr/share/doc/libperl5.10 -> perl
| 
| ---- copyright of libperl5.10_5.10.0~rc2-1_amd64.deb ----
| WARNING: No copyright found, please check package manually.
| 
| As you see the package is empty, has no depends on perl (but a symlink
| to it for the doc, which is only allowed if you have it in direct
| depends), misses contents, etc. :)


That's an example of why having a public VCS for such a package 
is a good idea. ;-)

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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