Reuploaded a new version comments online
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 07:50 +0200, roucaries bastien wrote:
>> Please do not upload directly, i will upload git tree before under
>> collab maint and postthe final ppackage here.
>>
>> I
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Hi Karl,
On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote:
>> - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used.
>
> Why is that? the manual entry for --pedantic says
>> Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and
>> include checks fo
Le Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 11:13:53AM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit :
>
> That said, some pedantic tags can probably be ignored but most are
> nonetheless still a very helpful addition one better should consider
> when packaging software.
Hello everybody,
I would like to add that in my experience, an in
Luis,
On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 23:12 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xxxterm".
>
> * Package name: xxxterm
> Version : 1.399-1
> Upstream Author : Marco Peereboom , Stevan Andjelkovic
> , Edd Barrett , Todd T. Fries
>
>
Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 11:13:53, Arno Töll a écrit :
> Hi Karl,
>
> On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote:
> >> - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used.
> >
> > Why is that? the manual entry for --pedantic says
> >
> >> Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pick
Hi!
While I'm not looking for a sponsor for my package, git-flow, I would
appreciate any comments regarding the packaging, and all ideas for
improvement.
* Package name: git-flow
Version : 0.4.1-1~preview0
Upstream Author : Vincent Driessen ,
Kate Ward,
* Fabrizio Regalli [110707 21:22]:
> > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.10-1
> > > of my package "flush".
> >
> > Some 'LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed' should help to get
> > the depedency list a bit shortened.
>
> Ok, I can add this flags.
Please do not add -Wl,--as-n
(I'm creating a new thread rather than replying to a particular message,
because my mail is not at all personal. It's a general tendency amongst
many debian-mentors reviewers that I'm going to rant about.)
A sponsor on 2011-07-08, 11:22 wrote:
1. You're using debhelper compat 7 and also only de
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "usb-imagewriter".
* Package name: usb-imagewriter
Version : 0.1.3-1
Upstream Author : Oliver Grawert
* URL : https://launchpad.net/usb-imagewriter
* License : GPL-1
Section : misc
It builds th
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 12:58 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "usb-imagewriter".
>
> * Package name: usb-imagewriter
> Version : 0.1.3-1
> Upstream Author : Oliver Grawert
> * URL : https://launchpad.net/usb-i
Hi Kilian,
Kilian Krause writes:
>
> Having a look at your package I find:
First of all, thanks a lot for looking at the package! Later today I
will go through your comments, make all the changes your suggesting and
update the package at mentors.
A few comments below.
> 1. You're using debhe
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 13:03 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 12:58 +0200, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> > Dear mentors,
> >
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "usb-imagewriter".
> >
> > * Package name: usb-imagewriter
> > Version : 0.1.3-1
> > Upstream
Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 12:55:52, Jakub Wilk a écrit :
[SNIP]
>
>
> Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are "good". But
> making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts
> attention from things that are important, and creates false impression
> that
Hello Kilian
Also thanks to you for taking the time to review this package.
The new package source is uploaded.
looking closer at your package I find the following:
1. It's an intial upload to Debian AFAICT. Yet your debian/changelog is
cluttered with a number of entries already. For an
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Dear reviewers, next time if you are going to complain about:
> - debian/compat being "too low";
There are cases where it should be bumped [1], support for old
versions gets removed. Many sponsors take the approach "What should be
done eventuall
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0-5
of my package "nullidentd".
It builds these binary packages:
nullidentd - small, fast identd daemon
Here is the ‘lintian’ commandline I ran, and its output:
$ lintian -IE --pedantic
I: nullidentd source: quilt-patch-missing-desc
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are "good". But
> making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts
> attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that
> they are somehow cru
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:47:31 -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
>
> > - debian/copyright not in DEP-5 format;
>
> This is accepted and will be policy soon [3]. "What should be done
> eventually must be done immediately."
>
I think you might misunderstand the DEP process, which is easy to
do. The follow
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> (I'm creating a new thread rather than replying to a particular
> message, because my mail is not at all personal. It's a general
> tendency amongst many debian-mentors reviewers that I'm going to
> rant about.)
>
> A sponsor on 2011-07-08,
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On 08.07.2011 15:56, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
>>> 1. You're using debhelper compat 7 and also only debhelper >=
>>> 7.0.50~ as Build-Depends. Please bump that to 8
>>
>> Seriously? Is the sponsor suggesting that one should be
>> build-depending on a new
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:40:46 +0200, Jeroen Schot wrote:
> Here is the ‘lintian’ commandline I ran, and its output:
Thank you for providing this information!
> $ lintian -IE --pedantic
> I: nullidentd source: quilt-patch-missing-description 01_random_usernames.diff
> I: nullidentd source: quilt-
Scott Howard writes:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>> - debian/copyright not in DEP-5 format;
> This is accepted and will be policy soon [3]. "What should be done
> eventually must be done immediately."
It will be in Policy and maintained via the Policy process, but it's
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
> On 08.07.2011 15:56, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> > I can understand how this applies to older packages that have been created
> > in
> > the past and just don't use some of the new functionality, but I guess that
> > the points are valid f
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Hi Adam,
On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote:
> If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper levels
> just make backporting harder for no gain.
There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in
squeeze-backports.
On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> There is one lintian warning:
>
> I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1
Ups, yes. Symbols file added.
> Two cppcheck warnings:
>
> [libpar2.h:29]: (error) Memory leak: LibPar2::par1Repairer
> [libpar2.h:30]: (error) Memory leak
Hi Sebastian,
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Sebastian H. wrote:
[...]
> >2. Your debian/watch doesn't work. Yield remote version -0.12.0
[...]
> The whole point for the 0.12.1 release was to make Debian
> integration smoother. Since most things seem to work now I've
> uploaded the tarb
Hi,
Kilian Krause writes:
> Having a look at your package I find:
Ok, so I re-worked the package and uploaded a new version into mentors:
dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xxxterm/xxxterm_1.399-1.dsc
I tried to follow all the advices, a few comments follow.
> 1. You're using d
Hi Jakub, hi all,
[...] (whether or not to request bumping debhelper compat; I do agree with the
technical arguments put forward by Jakub, but that's not the focus of my reply)
The obvious provocative answer is: Nitpicking is the way to go. As always,
however, there's more than black and white ou
Hi Andreas,
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:35:41PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
>
> > There is one lintian warning:
> >
> > I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1
>
> Ups, yes. Symbols file added.
[...]
> Thanks for checking the packa
Hello Jörn,
I have packaged xnoise without any lintian errors/warnings. Very good
work. Unfortunately I am not a DD. So you must search further for an
sponsor.
One tip: Instead of using in debian/rules:
override_dh_installman:
dh_installman debian/xnoise.1
it is better creating a file d
Hi,
Nice topic, thanks to Jakub for having the good idea to have started it.
On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce
> debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the
> sponsor has to take over maintenance of th
>
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>
> [...] but should be made explicit as the reasons not to use dh, for
> example, might mean that the helper is lacking functionality or
> behaves buggy in certain situations.
I don't get it here...
Do you think that debian/rules call
> Hi Adam,
>
> On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper
> levels
> > just make backporting harder for no gain.
>
> There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in
> squeeze-backports.
>
> Moreover Debian packages t
Thomas Goirand writes:
>> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 12:55 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
>>
>> [...] but should be made explicit as the reasons not to use dh, for
>> example, might mean that the helper is lacking functionality or
>> behaves buggy in certain situations.
>
> I don't get it here...
>
> D
On 08/07/11 22:23, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
>> Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce
>> debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the
>> sponsor has to take over maintenance of the package or if NMUs are
>> requi
On 07/08/2011 12:29 PM, Arno Töll wrote:
> On 08.07.2011 18:24, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> If you don't make use of newest shiniest features, higher debhelper
levels
>> just make backporting harder for no gain.
>
> There is debhelper 8 in both, lenny-backports as well as in
> squeeze-backports.
There
On 07/08/2011 09:31 PM, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:35:41PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote:
>> On 07/07/2011 10:43 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
>>
>>> There is one lintian warning:
>>>
>>> I: libpar2-0: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libpar2.so.0.0.1
>>
>> Ups, yes. Symbo
On Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:41:09 AM Leo "costela" Antunes wrote:
> On 08/07/11 22:23, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> >> Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce
> >> debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the
>
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 04:23:05AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 08:47 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Right now, the general consensus is the dh and cdbs produce
> > debian packages that are easier to maintain in the long run (if the
> > sponsor has to take over maintenance of the packa
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:32:20 +0200
"Thomas Preud'homme" wrote:
> Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 11:13:53, Arno Töll a écrit :
> > Hi Karl,
> >
> > On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote:
> > >> - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used.
> > >
> > > Why is that? the manual entry for --pe
Scott Howard wrote:
> From the debhelper manpage
>
> "Unless otherwise indicated, all debhelper documentation assumes that
> you are using the most recent compatibility level, and in most cases
> does not indicate if the behavior is different in an earlier
> compatibility level, so if you are not
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