Hi guys, just a few additional comments

2015-06-09 9:14 GMT+01:00 Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>:

> Le Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 12:38:31AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui a écrit :
> >
> > I was able to build it and clean it up a little more, but the package
> still
> > has some lint:
>
> Hi Afif, thanks a lot for all this work.
>
> > W: python-pysam source: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique
> (paragraph at
> > line 40)
> >
> > I'm actually not sure what to do about this one.
>
> Try public-domain instead of PublicDomain.  "public-domain" is a special
> case
> in the machine-readable specification, so if the Lintian warning stays, I
> would
> consider it a false positive.
>
>     https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
>
>
This is one of these weird lintian warnings that popped up recently. Seems
that
you can no longer define a License twice in d/copyright. I believe bug
reports
have been sent about the rationales behind this.

> I: ...hardening-no-fortify-functions...
> >
> > I think these are false positives since the CPPFLAGS for fortification
> look
> > like they're correctly set as I watch the package build.
>
> I have seen such apparent false positives in other packages.  If you have
> time,
> maybe it is worth asking for comments on the debian-mentors mailing list ?
>

+1


> > I: ...spelling-error-in-binary...
> >
> > This is maybe not worth fixing.
>
> Maybe the easiest way to get rid of it is a pull request to upstream on
> GitHub ?
>
>
Happened to me a few times, each time I ended up sending a patch upstream.
It's up
to you to decide whether you want to carry on a patch downstream just to
fix such an
inoffensive bug. I personally did not care to do so.


Best regards,
Ghislain

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