On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:36:23PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > I keep forgetting filling an ITP. It is usually caught on final review > > because for some reason lintian is not being run by default by my > > packaging chain :-( > For ‘pbuilder’, you can add a hook that automatically runs Lintian on > every package it builds. Other packaging tools will surely have a > similar feature. debuild (and so tools that call it) even have this by default. > > I find the ITP/wnpp annoying as well. I usually end up browsing > > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ , opening all links then searching for > > my package :-] > Instead, when you first create the package, edit ‘debian/changelog’ and > make “Initial Debian package of ‘foo’ (Closes: bug#NNNNNN)” the very > first bullet point in your first changelog entry. Then you won't need to > keep looking it up. dch --create and dh_make even make this entry by default. -- WBR, wRAR
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