On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:59:33AM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: >* Joshua Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-19 18:22:29 -0700]: > >> The debian packages and files can be found here: >> >> http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bjosh/ > Just fetched. > >> I know they aren't perfect, but its the first one I've done, so I'd >> like to have some help! > There are some mistakes: first, please try to split off the source; >name the 'upstream' source _only_ to ncview_1.92e.orig.tar.gz and let >debuild or anything else you use to build your package to generate a >diff for it. Also, building fails right off at the configure: >checking for /root/src/netcdf/netcdf-3.4/src/libsrc/netcdf.h... no >Error: I cannot find the directory that holds the netcdf include file netcdf.h! > >Please remove debian/ncview.doc-base.EX (example file, and you don't use >it), debian/README.Debian (it's empty, useless). >Looking into the source, I see you directly program X11, but you don't >have any build dependencies on it in debian/control (do you need >interface/x_interface.orig.c btw?). >Please remove the unused (commented out lines) from debian/rules >Please fix debian/copyright , if there's only one upstream author, then >you don't need the (s) at the end, a pointer to >/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL would be good, etc. Please look into >other packages' copyright file (someone have a good link how a copyright >file should like, please speak up).
[0] http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200312/msg00007.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/12/msg00194.html [3] http://people.debian.org/~walters/descriptions.html >I think we can help you more if you fixed these. For additional help, >please see: >http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ >http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ >http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ > >Regards, >Laszlo/GCS Regards, Anibal Monsalve Salazar -- .''`. Debian GNU/Linux | Building 28C : :' : Free Operating System | Monash University VIC 3800, Australia `. `' http://debian.org/ | http://www-personal.monash.edu/~anibal/ `- |
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