Bug#497089: RFP: dwdiff -- front-end for the diff program that operates word by word
Hello Olexandr,
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:02, Olexandr Kravchuk <sashko.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: http://www.sashko.rv.ua/debian/packages/dwdiff.tar.gz
>
> This's one of my first Debian package, so, please, be tolerant to my errors.
> I'm ready learns and to work on their correction. Thank you!
Here are some comments:
- to ask for review/upload/comments it's better if you upload your
package to mentors.debian.net and send an email to
debian-mentors@lists.debian.org (not many people look at wnpp bugs :)
), so please do it from now on
- why you provide a tar with all the stuff in, instad of simply
publishing the source package (.orig.tar.gz, .dsc, .diff.gz)? it's
easier to review and download (dget <file>.dsc for example)
- the directory in the tarball contains some .torrent file, not
present in the upstream tarball (ok, we don't look at it for review,
but curious :) )
- instead of directly change the upstream code, it's better if you use
a patch system like dpatch[1] or quilt
- if you don't need stuff in debian/rules, just remove them (don't
leave commented lines in it, it's less readable)
- clearly separate copyright and license notices in debian/copyright
- remove the "a" from the short description "Description: a delimited
word diff program" (there is a paragraph about it on Developer
Reference, but i'm too lazy to search and refer to it :) )
Please note that I didn't build your package (I'm on win now), but you
might want to build it in pbuilder to be sure its build-depends are
all there in debian/control file. Ah, and use lintian (don't know if
you already do it).
Please upload to mentors.d.n the updated version and we'll check it there after.
Kindly,
Sandro
[1] http://packaging-handbook.alioth.debian.org/wiki/PatchSystems/
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