Hello Adam!
My apologies, this Email is text only. (I wrote yesterday's mail on my cellphone and was distracted. Sorry!!) With your help, I was able to fixed the three trivial warnings. They are gone now. As for the remaining two: I would like to put them on hold for moment, I do not know if that diminish my chances to get an actual sponsor? Thomas > Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> hat am 8. Oktober 2019 um 23:48 > geschrieben: > > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 09:11:04PM +0200, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: > > <!doctype html> > > <html> > > <head> > > <meta charset="UTF-8"> > > </head> > > <body> > > <div> > > First, please do not send a webpage instead of text. This misfeature of > some mails clients is heavily frowned upon here. Grepping my maildirs, I > see that over half of posters on lists I read use Mutt which (intentionally) > doesn't support HTML emails. > > All of your previous mails used plain text, thus I see your mail program > (some "Open-Xchange Mailer" that I don't know) is able to do so. > > > So... My package is getting more and more ready. > > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/dmagnetic > > > Most lintian warnings are gone. Even the project's website has been > > switched to SSL. > > For the first version, I wouldn't care much about [I]nformational and > [P]edantic tags; they're wishlist -- something that's worth spending effort > on but not an important enough to be a priority. The package is free from > lintian [E]rrors and [W]arnings. > > On the other hand, of the five points left, three look trivial to fix: > > * description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly > "Play classic textadventures from Magnetic Scrolls in glorious ANSI Art." > > Lintian actually checks for the period at the end (to spot sentences) but > what it wants is to have the desc be a noun phrase rather than a full > sentence. > > * hardening-no-bindnow > usr/games/dMagnetic > * hardening-no-fortify-functions > usr/games/dMagnetic > > The Makefile doesn't pass LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to the compiler. > > Type "dpkg-buildflags" to see flags that are relevant (although you > obviously don't care about Fortran or Java...). > > > All that is missing now would be a sponsor, right? > > > How will I be able to find one? > > Alas, there's a strong dearth of people willing to review uploads of > newcomers. This is a self-aggravating problem: without such reviews, there > won't be new people to do so in the future. But pinging us tends to improve > your chances. > > > Meow! > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ A MAP07 (Dead Simple) raspberry tincture recipe: 0.5l 95% alcohol, > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ 1kg raspberries, 0.4kg sugar; put into a big jar for 1 month. > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Filter out and throw away the fruits (can dump them into a cake, > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ etc), let the drink age at least 3-6 months. >
