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Bug#723626:



Am Donnerstag, den 19.09.2013, 16:08 -0400 schrieb Jon Daley:
> Yes, I saw the debian-lintian errors.  And I can take a look at those - I 
> wanted to see if I had the packaging procedure down correctly before 
> attacking those.  (and those issues have been around for years, so I 
> wasn't making anything worse by not touching them yet)

Well, a lintian-clean package attracts more sponsors :)
And as a maintainer you have not too much be afraid to make you package
worse but brave to improve it to the state of the art.

> 
> And I did see that the upstream link to the tar file was broken - his main 
> site still links to it, so I figure he must have just broken it.  If he 
> decides to stop publishing it - is there a process for that?  The code is 
> in the public domain.
> 

Mmmh, if upstream is gone this is a hint to think about if the
lifecylcle of the package comes also to a end. Popcon says around 500
installs, (with a big jump going up early this year); so IMHO the
package is still useful for quite many users.

> 
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Tobias Frost wrote:
> 
> > Hallo Jon,
> >
> > (Disclaimer: I'm not a DD/DM; also I'm quite new in reviewing, so I
> > might also overlook smth or be wrong)
> >
> > Some notes while I looked at your package:
> > * d/patches/* please add dep3 headers.
> > * Can you upgrade standards-version to 3.9.4?
> > * Please enable hardening (maybe along with setting d/compat to 9)
> > * Add yourself to debian/copyright. Maybe update it to dep5 format?
> > * orig source cannot be downloaded: I get a access denied error. Maybe
> > get in contact with upstream?
> > * d/rules I like debhelper short form better than the old one, might be
> > worth to upgrade as I find it easier to maintain.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > coldtobi
> >
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