On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:04:11PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> Alessandro Ghedini <al3x...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> > 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.
> >
> Uploaded -- you're welcome!
Thank you again :)
> One thing I noticed is that the "failmalloc" script hangs if you don't
> supply the "--" separator; this should be fixed. Also, most people
> expect "--" to be optional, so making the script behave that way would
> be another improvement (i.e. stop processing failmalloc options at the
> first argument not starting with a dash).
Yeah that would be nice, but when I tried I wasn't able to do it. I'll
look at it again in the future anyway.
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