On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:56:27PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> Alessandro Ghedini <al3x...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:31:29AM -0800, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> >> * Package name : failmalloc
> >> Version : 1.0-1
> >> Upstream Author : Yoshinori K. Okuji <ok...@enbug.org>
> >> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc
> >> * License : LGPL-2+
> >> Section : devel
> >>
> >> It builds these binary packages:
> >> failmalloc - Memory allocation failure crash-test tool
> >>
> >> The package appears to be lintian clean.
> >>
> >> The upload would fix these bugs: 462792 (ITP)
> >>
> >> My motivation for maintaining this package is: I have found this tool
> >> very helpful. I packaged it for myself, and I don't see any reason to not
> >> share my work with others.
> >>
> >> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> >> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/failmalloc
> >> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
> >> main contrib non-free
> >> - dget
> >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/failmalloc/failmalloc_1.0-1.dsc
> >>
> >> Or on git:
> >> - Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/failmalloc.git;a=summary
> >> - git clone git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/failmalloc.git
> >
> > Is anyone interested in uploading this package?
> >
> I'm interested; it's a potentially very useful piece of software. I did
> a quick look at your package, and found the following issues:
>
> - You seem to have repacked the upstream source:
>
> % cmp failmalloc_1.0.orig.tar.gz failmalloc-1.0.tar.gz
> failmalloc_1.0.orig.tar.gz failmalloc-1.0.tar.gz differ: char 5, line 1
>
> This is for both the .tar.gz as obtained from pristine-tar as well as
> the one from dget (they are identical, but different from upstream).
> As there's no debian/README.source, I assume this is accidential.
Yes, it was. I fixed it (now cmp is silent).
> - debian/copyright is in an old DEP-5 format; the current one ([0],
> which is now approaching stability, IIUC) can be converted to and
> checked with the tools from the libconfig-model-perl package as
> described in [1]. For example:
Ok, I updated to the latest version of the format. Now also config-edit
is silent.
> I've not actually tested failmalloc yet, but assuming it's working, and
> you fix the above issues (the first one in particuliar), I'll sponsor
> it.
Thank you very much.
Cheers
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