Hi Bas, I suggest to do the following changes: - Remove machine/m_gnu.c from debian/patches/ptop_hurd, - Add "cp -f machine/m_linux.c machine/m_gnu.c" to debian/rules, - Add debian/clean containing "machine/m_gnu.c", - Add similar changes for the other arch(s) with the same problem, - Rename debian/patches/ptop_hurd to debian/patches/archs, - Update "Architecture:" in debian/control.
I'm not sure about removing hppa and powerpcspe from ptop's archs list because I don't know the issue with debhelper on these archs. Is it really a permanent problem ? Maybe ptop can have "Architecture: any". This page http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=debhelper&suite=sid states "No entry in hppa database, check Packages-arch-specific" but this page https://buildd.debian-ports.org/quinn-diff/sid/Packages-arch-specific seems to fail at this time. I looked this up: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile "must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright information" "should name the original authors" I see in the file LICENSE that William LeFebvre is copyright holder but that is not yet mentioned in debian/copyright. That's a "must" for debian-policy. I see that there are quite some authors. Mentioning them in debian/copyright is a "should" for debian-policy. To help you with listing them, I found these authors so far: Andrew Herbert Andrew S. Townley Anthony Baxter Ariel Faigon Christos Zoulas Joep Vesseur John Haxby John Schimmel Kevin Schmidt Larry McVoy Mike Hopkirk Richard Henderson Sandeep Cariapa Thorsten Lockert Torsten Kasch William LeFebvre Rich Holland Mark Wong I think that the list is pretty complete, but it's possible that I've missed a few. I have left out the e-mail addresses to prevent complaints about spam. I suggest to add this list to debian/copyright. It's a "should" for debian-policy. Regards, Bart Martens -- 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/20120605052029.gb21...@master.debian.org
