On Tuesday 29 July 2008, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Stefanos Harhalakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.28.1250 +0200]:
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vbackup/vbackup_0.1.6pre1-1.
> >dsc
> debian/control:
> Build-Depends-Indep: autotools-dev
> I don't like if packages configure themselves during build. If
> you want me to sponsor, then please provide a proper tarball
> with a configure script that doesn't need to be rebuilt; then
> drop the build-dep.
>
> remove /^Depends:[[:space:]]*/
That was a mistake. Removed the Build-Depends-Indep and also removed the
Depends line.
> I would appreciate a short note about how this compares to other
> methods, like backupninja.
Include a comparison of vbackup with other software in the package
description? Somehow I don't find this right. I believe that it is a moving
target that may imply false things regarding other packages at some point in
the future if not updated correctly.
> Also: the short description ("A modular backup utility") is
> repeated in the long description; just delete the first sentence
> and s/It/vbackup/.
>
> What does *v* stand for?
Nothing related to backup. At first it was named sbackup (simple backup) but
since that name was already used I changed it to vbackup (a letter from my
nick). Does this play any role in debian packaging?
> debian/copyright:
> Are you sure you want "either version 2 of the License, or (at
> your option) any later version."? I personally don't support GPLv3
> and thus limit all my GPL software to v2.
Well, in fact, that was an error and thank you for mentioning it. vbackup is
unter GPLv3 since I really don't want to ever accept any patches that include
patented code. Can you provide me with more information regarding the reasons
you dislike GPLv3? Perhaps there are things that I should be aware of but I'm
not.
> debian/rules:
> It says:
> # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
> but it's not.
>
> Please also remove extraneous comments.
Done.
> Finally, lintian says:
>
> W: vbackup: doc-base-unknown-section vbackup:6 admin
>
> you should always make sure lintian produces no warnings and/or
> errors before asking for sponsorship.
I'm using lintian v1.24.2 and there is no such warning:
$ lintian -i vbackup_0.1.6pre1-1.dsc && echo OK
OK
mentors.debian.net's web interface also says that there are no lintian
warnings:
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Lintian warnings: none
Lintian errors: none
Am I missing something here?
I've not uploaded the corrected version to mentors.deiban.net since there may
be other changes too. I've also added more features to the development
version of vbackup and a proper man page. I will make them available as a
newer version when all debian packaging issues are solved.
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