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> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:57:30 -0800
> From: alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org
> To: rwob...@hotmail.com
> CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: revieuws
>
> On 02/05/2014 12:46 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today I uploaded my first package called audiosum.
>> You can find it here : https://mentors.debian.net/package/audiosum
>>
>> What do you mentors think of this package ?
>
> Hi. I'm not a DD, but...
>
> 1. Well, manpages could be better, but I think upstream should fix them
> either manually or make them more help2man friendly. Oh wait, upstream
> is me! :-/ I'll work on that for 0.3.1 or 0.4. I don't know what other
> mentors think, if the manpages should be fixed immediately (which would
> be difficult for upstream to do) or if it's ok to go on like that and
> fix them in a future version of the package.

I also do not know. 
What do you think can be better about the manpages.
Maybe I can try to change it. 

> 2. In the debian/control file, there are unused lines (Vcs-*). I'd
> suggest you remove them, not just comment them.

Oke, I will change that in version -3. 

> 3.The description is wrong and not understandable. A user should be able
> to make sense of what the pagckage does just my looking at its
> description. Try this:
>
> Description: Tool to checksum audio in mp3 files and find duplicates
> Audiosum displays the checksum for non-ID3 content in audio files.
> This makes it possible to find mp3 files that only differ on their
> ID3 tags. Audiodup is an included wrapper for audiosum that finds
> and lists duplicate files.

I will also change that in version -3 

> 4. I see that the debian/copyright file says:
>
> License: GPL-3
> This package [blah, blah...] either version 2 of the License, or
> (at your option) any later version.
>

> It appears to me that you took the text from GPLv2 instead of v3.

Will change that also as soon as I find the tekst from v3. 

> 5. Finally, and most importantly; it didn't build here. Here's the log.
>
> $ debuild -us -uc
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package audiosum
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.3-1
> dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution unstable
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Roelof Wobben <r.wob...@home.nl>
> dpkg-source --before-build audiosum-0.3
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: dh-autoreconf
> dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied;
> aborting
> dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
> debuild: fatal error at line 1364:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed

Did you try this before the build. 
apt-get install dh-autoreconf 

I did that and then it builds fine. As far as I know debuild never takes 
the build requirements with the build. 

> Thanks again. It's almost there.

You thanks for all the remarks. I learn a lot of them.                          
          

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