Hi, Unfortunately this is not yet ready for upload. It's nearly there though.
debian/copyright: This is one of the most important things to get right, and you have got this right. Do be careful though licensing your packaging under different terms to the upstream code. In this case, it's possible to take patches you produce and relicense them under GNU GPL v3 (due to the "any later version" clause) so they can be integrated upstream, but this would not be the case with incompatible licenses. I prefer to always just use the license that upstream used. debian/control: You've set the section to "misc". I would suggest you set this to "web" instead. See Debian Policy ยง2.4 for more detail on sections. The extended description also needs to be slightly more extended. Please talk about the features this application has. debian/rules: You've got some things in here that I don't believe are necessary. I like the debian/rules to be as clean as possible, using as many of the current defaults as possible. The following statements are redundant as you are using compat level 9: export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed It is acceptable to leave in the "nocheck" export as long as that's not a permanent thing. Please contact upstream and ask them to make the tests pass. export V = 1 I'm not sure what $V does. Is this really necessary for the release in the Debian archive? You have an "override_dh_auto_configure" section, please look up dh-autoreconf as this will handle this for you. Currently this package is not policy compliant as "debian/rules clean" will not restore the package to its original state. dh-autoreconf handles storing the old versions for you and ensuring the package is policy compliant in that respect. dh $@ --parallel Unless you have a good reason for the --parallel, please remove this. If it turns out later that the Debian build systems prefer this option, it would become a default. As I said above, I prefer defaults be used whenever possible. The package bulds fine using cowbuilder, and lintian has no futher complaints, if you can fix these issues then I will be happy to sponsor this package for you. Thanks, Iain. --
