Re: [RFS] QA upload of ncpfs merging all Ubuntu changes

[James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net>]

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 17:14 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, James Westby wrote:
> 
> > Some fixes had built up in Ubuntu's ncpfs package, and as the package
> > is QA maintained I rolled a proposed update for Debian. Would someone
> > kindly review and sponsor my package at
> >
> > http://people.ubuntu.com/~jamesw/packages/ncpfs_2.2.6-6/ncpfs_2.2.6-6.dsc
> >
> > I haven't been able to test it in action though, so if anyone has the
> > capability then I would greatly appreciate that.
> 
> I could sponsor an upload but I wonder if you might like to fix the following
> lintian issues first:

Hi,

I saw these, but I didn't deem them worth the effort.

> 
> E: ncpfs source: outdated-autotools-helper-file contrib/php/config.sub 2003-10-07
> E: ncpfs source: outdated-autotools-helper-file contrib/php/config.guess 2003-10-07

These I should have fixed I realise.

> W: ncpfs: binary-without-manpage sbin/mount.ncpfs

This is like a private helper isn't it?

> W: ncpfs: setuid-binary usr/bin/ncpmount 4755 root/root
> W: ncpfs: setuid-binary usr/bin/ncpumount 4755 root/root
> W: ncpfs: setuid-binary usr/bin/nwsfind 4755 root/root

Unavoidable. I can add overrides if you like.

> W: ncpfs: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 483 "badly formatted trailer line"
> W: ncpfs: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 485 "found start of entry where expected more change data or trailer"
> W: ncpfs: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 492 "badly formatted trailer line"
> W: ncpfs: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 494 "found start of entry where expected more change data or trailer"

The first 3 changelog entries have no date. I could manufacture a date, 
but that seems wrong.

Thanks,

James