On 09-Sep-2014, Eriberto Mota wrote: > About your package, please: Thank you for reviewing and providing feedback on this package.
> 2. d/control: in short description there is an 'indent' signal. > Please, change to a simple dash. Do the same in d/copyright. I don't know what “indent signal” is. Are you referring to a punctuation character? All the control files in a Debian source package are Unicode <URL:https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html>, so as far as I can tell these control fields can contain any appropriate punctuation. Is there some other problem with these fields? > 3. d/copyright: there are files licensing to other authors that not > Dropbox. Please, review carefully all files. As help, use 'grep > -sriA25 copyright *'. Thank you, I will look more closely and update the copyright information. > 4. Your package doesn't build in my machine. It stops showing '( cd > scripts && python "build_frequency_lists.py" )' in screen. You later appeared to get further in the build process. Is this still a problem for you? On 10-Sep-2014, Eriberto Mota wrote: > I did new tests and the package, when building, downloads lots of > files from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary. > > The download files at build time is discouraged […] I agree with these reasons. Do you have a different approach which would avoid generated files in the source package without corresponding source? I would like to find a solution that improves the upstream package and doesn't bundle sourceless data files, but upstream are not responsive to discussing these improvements. Maybe I'll need to host a fork myself. -- \ “I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the | `\ porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't | _o__) open.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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