Thanks for your comments. Thus wrote Ruben Molina (rmol...@udea.edu.co) [08.12.30 19:51]: > Hi Christian! > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my packages "libpqstego" and "pqstego". > > I'm not a DD so I cannot sponsor uploads, but here are some comments: > > Both packages are tagged as version: 0.0.0, do you really think they are > ready to be included in Debian?
I hope so, the algorithm of J. Fridrich [1] is working and diffrent checks of the source (ie. valgrind) didn't report any problems. > In both packages you are shipping the debian/ stuff in the sources, so > the *.diff.gz are empty :S. > > $ dpkg-source -x libpqstego_0.0.0-1.dsc > dpkg-source: warning: diff `./libpqstego_0.0.0-1.diff.gz' doesn't > contain any patch > > $ dpkg-source -x pqstego_0.0.0-1.dsc > dpkg-source: warning: diff `./pqstego_0.0.0-1.diff.gz' doesn't contain > any patch > > As you are upstream, you should separate the debian/ dir from the > sources. If you release a *.tar.gz without debian/ dir, and then you are > prepare the debian package, the changes needed are stored in the > *.diff.gz file... Ok, I will separate them. > Check your packages with lintian adding the -I option: > > $ lintian -I libpqstego_0.0.0-1_i386.changes > I: libpqstego source: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper > 7 > I: libpqstego0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpqstego.so.0.0.0 > I: libpqstego0-dev: extended-description-is-probably-too-short > I: libpqstego0-dbg: extended-description-is-probably-too-short > > $ lintian -IE pqstego_0.0.0-1_i386.changes > I: pqstego-dbg: extended-description-is-probably-too-short > I: pqstego: extended-description-is-probably-too-short > > you should work on this... > > And yes... your extended descriptions are for sure *too* short :) > BTW, check your short descriptions too, after reading 6.2.1-6.2.3 on > Developers Reference [1] > > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ A better short/long description is in progress. How can I generate such a symbols file in debian/rules? > libpqstego builds fine under pbuilder, but libpqstego0-dev and > libpqstego0-dbg fails on piuparts... I haven't tested why, but please > check this too... Uhmm... didn't tried for pqstego... Will check that. > Uhmm BTW, I'm not sure about versioning the package names for -dev and > -dbg... check the Library Packaging Guide too [2] :) > > [2] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/ In the guide they use the example "libfooX-dev" > Uhmm, finally, maybe both projects can be merged... (?) Hmm I wanted to separate them, as I use the library in some other projects too. > OK. That's what I can see after a fast checking... > > Thanks for your interest on Debian :) > > Ruben Molina > > > Ps.: Merry Chrismas, and a Happy New Year [1] Perturbed Quantization Steganography with Wet Paper Codes, with M. Goljan and D. Soukal, Proc. ACM Multimedia Security Workshop, Magdeburg, Germany, September 20-21, pp. 4-15, 2004 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. Key ID: 0x61E7150B - 4EFC 3FA6 FB8E 2BD5 CA11 6F15 F557 6B5D 61E7 150B Christian Kuka ck...@madkooky.de
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