Hi Vincent, as promised, here is my review for DNT.
First of all the overall impression is very positive and the whole
package is already in a good shape. Thanks for packaging DNT.
Things you could improve:
- please depend on debhelper >=9 and use compat level 9
- you don't have to build-depend on quilt because source format 3.0
uses quilt by default
- your dependency on dnt-data (= ${source:Version}) is probably too
strict in this case because your data package is rather large. (> 150
MB). You can save a lot of bandwidth by depending on
dnt-data (>= ${source:Upstream-Version}),
dnt-data (<= ${source:Version})
The same goes for dnt-tools.
- Package: dnt-data
I would lower Recommends: dnt (= ${binary:Version}) to Suggests: dnt.
Most people, who download the data package directly, are only interested
in the data files.
- package description: Maybe you could find one or two additional
sentences why people should play this game and describe what it makes
special. You don't have to mention that it is a free game. All packages
in main are free.
- Your desktop files contain a minor mistake because all keywords must
have a semicolon as trailing character. You can validate your desktop
file with desktop-file-validate.
- It is not 100% clear how you obtained the sources. The original
tarball is bz2 compressed. Yours is gz compressed. I suggest you switch
to xz compression in source/options and for the upstream tarball and
document modifications either in README.source or you might want to
write a get-orig-source target for debian/rules.
https://wiki.debian.org/onlyjob/get-orig-source
- The desktop icons for the map-editor and part-editor look blurred on
Gnome 3. The dnt icon looks much better.
- debian/copyright:
Please update the old dep5 syntax to copyright format 1.0.
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
- You might want to add the license paragraph in upstream's README as a
comment to your copyright file because it clarifies the whole licensing.
- You can avoid some useless dependencies by using
export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
in debian/rules or by updating the build system.
- I get a strange error message when I run the map editor from the
command line:
EE r600_texture.c:786 r600_texture_transfer_map - mapping MSAA zbuffer
unimplemented
OpenGL Error: out of memory
Otherwise it seems to work.
- You need to install the game data to /usr/share/games
- Some of the fonts are non-free. Those have to be removed in the
original tarball and not only in the final package.
Regards,
Markus
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