On 17 June 2012 at 19:55, Praveen A wrote: | It is uploaded to mentors.debian.net but needs some hardening fixes | http://mentors.debian.net/package/r-cran-rcurl | | Hi Dirk, | | I think it needs some changes to upstream build files. Can you please check?
I see the following at the webpage – Buildsystem: Package uses CDBS + Package closes a WNPP bug + Homepage control field present + Package has lintian warnings W hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/libs/RCurl.so W hardening-no-relro usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/libs/RCurl.so P no-upstream-changelog – "Maintainer" email is the same as the uploader – Package is not native – Package is the latest upstream version so some comments in turn: 1) cdbs is a non-issue, all r-cran-* packages currently work that that way. 2) Lintian: 2a) Hardering: no idea, I never did anything to my packages 2b) No upstream changelog: Is there really nothing in the upstream tarball? 3) Maintainer same as uploader: no idea 4) Package is not native: you need to fix that by saving it as foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz 5) Package is latest upstream version: no idea what that is about | Cheers, Dirk | Thanks | Praveen | -- | പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് | You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your | rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as | they follow the rules: laws and constitution. -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20445.62054.751048.360...@max.nulle.part
