Hi Thomas, On Mo 30 Sep 2013 16:09:13 CEST, Thomas Koch wrote:
On Monday, September 30, 2013 03:49:08 PM Mike Gabriel wrote:From looking at the package on mentors.debian.net, you should at least get the watch file issue and the man page issue fixed. I will not sponsor a package that lacks either of those two. If those are fixed, I will be happy to take a closer look.Hi Mike, thank you for looking at the package. There are people waiting for this package for there free children computer courses. Therefor I tried to get it out quickly. I also wanted to ask my sponsor to give me DMU rights on the package for the "point release".
Once the package is in a good shape, I can also do the DMU magic.Please understand that a new package upload cannot be rushed because of deployment needs. You could setup a little reprepro site and deploy the package from there before it's available in debian. Make sure to use a version that's lower than the version that will come to Debian (<upstream-version>-<debian-release>~thkoch+1 for example).
The upstream of the package is inactive since 2009 and wrote me that he has no interest to continue the package. However the code is in good shape and I can fix bugs myself and I might also take over upstream development. So there's no real place to point a watch file to ATM.
I'd rather prefer having an active upstream. If I understand you right, you are willing to slip into the role of upstream (software developer) and downstream (Debian package maintainer).
Please do that. And provide an upstream location that has the version you want to package tagged somehow. One way could be to push the current release (or a git/svn/cvs clone with complete upstream dev history) to Github or Bitbucket or SF and tag the latest upstream version there.
Then the new upstream Vcs should appear in the watch file.
I could write a trivial manpage but what's the point for a GUI app with no single command line option? The manpage could point to the documentation and tell curious bypassers what the program is about. Is it possible to override the lintian warning
Also for GUI application, a man page should be provided. Don't link to external information, but put a short summary of what the application does on that man page.
I can write a manpage if you insist.
I do insist. ;-)
Regards, Thomas
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