Hi Margarita! :-) On 2/21/06, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/10/06, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As usual the source package can be found at mentors.debian.net .[1] > > [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xshisen/ > > Zak, I've been looking at the package. It looks quite good. > > However, I found that at the changelog you close many bugs, > acknowledging the NMUs. This is what the Developer's Reference says, > but it has actually been reported as a bug, by Jeroen [1]. So, you > might want to drop that and ask your future sponsor to please build > the package with the -v<version> option. > > [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353447 >
Just visited the link, and yes, from Jeroen's explanation I clearly see the rationale behind this. Yeah, I figured closing too many bugs inside a Closes didn't seem right, but since developers-reference says so... :/ > Also, I got all these lintian errors: > > W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/man6/xshisen.6.gz 140: a space character is not allowed > in an escape name > W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/ja/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: cannot > adjust line > W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/ja_JP/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: cannot > adjust line > W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/ja_JP.JIS7/man6/xshisen.6.gz conversion from `JIS7' is > not supported > W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/ja_JP.PCK/man6/xshisen.6.gz conversion from `PCK' is > not supported > W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/ja_JP.SJIS/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: > cannot adjust line > W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: > cannot adjust line > W: xshisen: manpage-has-errors-from-man > usr/share/man/ja_JP.ujis/man6/xshisen.6.gz 9: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: > cannot adjust line > W: xshisen: unquoted-string-in-menu-item /usr/share/menu/xshisen needs:2 > W: xshisen: unquoted-string-in-menu-item /usr/share/menu/xshisen section:2 > > The manpages might not be errors at all, since it's in japanese, and > maybe lintian is not really so good at checking japanese manpages, but > the others are real warnings: Reading Nicolas' mail I think I can fix this. Thanks Nekral! :D > ?package(xshisen):needs=X11 section=Games/Board\ > title="xshisen" command="/usr/games/xshisen" > > Should be: > > ?package(xshisen):needs="X11" section="Games/Board"\ > title="xshisen" command="/usr/games/xshisen" Gaah, I thought this was already changed :/ > Also, when running "linda" against it, I got this other error: > > W: xshisen; Package version 1.51-2 is less than 1.51-1-1.3. > > Which looks kind of puzzling at the first moment, but after parsing > the numbers, it's correct. > > 1.51-2 means: upstream 1.51 - debian 2 > 1.51-1-1.3 means: upstream 1.51-1 - debian 1.3 > > So, even if the debian part is greater, the upstream part is smaller. > I guess you'll have to keep the extra -1 until the next upstream > release comes. How about an epoch (_shudder_)? Would that work? As for the rest of the warnings, I'm fixing those now, and I'll upload a new xshisen by the time afternoon comes. ;) Thanks everyone for your tips! :D Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D
