On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:50:53 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: >> >>> henceforth I am attaching the diff from the present version in >>> sid/squeeze for your kind review >>> >> Looks ok for a freeze exception. Please let -release know when the >> package is accepted in the archive. > > Please fix the following issues and I will upload it: > > Please close the relevant Launchpad bugs in the changelog using (LP: > #1234) so that once Ubuntu syncs the package, the relevant bugs will > be automatically closed. You can find the relevant Launchpad bugs in > the upstream git log.
Okay sure paul! > You also added a love poem in 'debian/new file', I would suggest that > is not useful in a source package and should be removed, cute though > it is :) Sorry! it was added by mistake :) > The following issues are not blockers for this upload: > > Since upstream uses autotools, you can use 'make distcheck' to create > the tarball in debian/rules get-orig-source. Then let upstream know if > that fails or produces a different tarball than what you need for > Debian. The default upstream tarball format seems to be .tar.bz2 so > you will need to add a bunzip2 > ...tar.bz2 | gzip -9 > ...tar.gz to > the process at least until post-squeeze when you could switch to > dpkg-source v3 (IIRC the release team prefers not to unblock > dpkg-source format version changes). > > I just noticed that the version number is incorrect since upstream > hasn't bumped the version in configure.ac, please talk to upstream > about that. Probably the version number needs to be autogenerated > based on the date of the latest git commit when the tarball is > generated with "make distcheck". > > The upstream source still contains references to SVN, but it is now > maintained in git, you might want to poke them about that. > > Upstream might want to look at CC0, which is a more internationalised > version of CC-PD. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > -- Bhavani Shankar.R https://launchpad.net/~bhavi, a proud ubuntu community member. What matters in life is application of mind!, It makes great sense to have some common sense..! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim9ykqqnss0_19kqtwvak_s94snhwfc8cdhb...@mail.gmail.com
