On 09/05/2011 10:53, Etienne Millon wrote:
> Hello,
Hi!
> As the usual disclaimer says, please not that I am not a DD and so, I can not
> sponsor this package. However here is my review of gtkpod_2.0.0-1 (md5sum of
> dsc
> in case it changed : c9d4216c068873d3939f310de582c671).
>
> - it builds in a clean chroot. However dpkg-shlibdeps complains about
> unneeded
> shared libraries.
I already asked upstream for adding the --as-needed flag in linking
phase. No reply for now.
> - debian/copyright makes references to nonexistent or moved files. For
> example
> wavfile.{c,h} now live in plugins/filetype_wav, and there are no md5.{c,h}
> file. This is a blocker, you should clarify which copyright applies to
> which
> file.
I'm working on it now. I'd like to make it DEP-5 compliant.
> - debian/rules :
> - why do you remove RPATHs from executables and binary ? It's stated
> briefly
> in NEWS.debian, but the reason is not there.
Without this hack, it doesn't compile and build. I'll add a line about
it in NEWS.Debian (or README.Debian?).
> - as libgtkpod.la is new, no reverse dependencies should depend on its
> existence. It should be safe not to install it[1].
OK, gonna remove it. However I asked in IRC channel and they told me how
to blank the dependency_libs field and keep the rest of the file, for
compatibility.
> - debian/patches : please consider using the DEP-3 format[2].
OK.
> - debian/changelog :
> - as your ITA bug has been merged with the O bug, closing one should close
> the other one.
Perfect. I'll remove the latter.
> - technically, your patch system is not quilt, but the "3.0 (quilt)"
> format.
> "quilt" refers to quilt used manually against sources, or with dh --with
> quilt.
OK. I'll remove the sentence about it.
> - the "README.debian" is not necessary.
Really? OK.
> - lintian : clean upto -I. -E shows one warning : X: libgtkpod1:
> shlib-calls-exit usr/lib/gtkpod/libsorttab_display.so It's mostly
> processes
> exiting after fork(), and arguments processing. In the latter case, you
> might convince upstream to do that outside the library.
I'll try. Thanks.
> Thanks for contributing to Debian !
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval
> [2] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
mfv
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