control: tag -1 moreinfo control: owner -1 ! On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 08:00:11PM +0000, Jose M Calhariz wrote: > So I am searching for > someone that can help sponsor the packages, close the ITA and help me > fix the last bits for making the packages fit for Debian. > > The packages are very old. I can't update sawfish without updating > it's build-depends so starting with librep. The latest changes are > on collab-maint and being tested in two of my PC for since August.
ok, there a bunch of things I'd like to see before uploading this.
* d/control:
+ bump standards-version to the last policy release, 3.9.6
- this also requires adding stuff to d/rules. maybe just use dh?
+ canonicalize Vcs-* (for -Browser please use https)
* use source/format 3.0 (quilt)
+ so drop quilt build-dep
+ and also the include in d/rules can go
+ note: I won't upload stuff without d/source/format without a very
good reason.
* d/README.source is outdated. moreover if you move to 3.0 (quilt) you
can just drop it.
* d/rules:
+ the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS thing about noopt can go, afaik dpkg takes
care of it nowadays
+ please use dh-autoreconf (aka, #744619, you even have a patch!)
+ can you use the short dh format? (I can even live without, it's
just I prefer quite more dh over plain debhelper)
+ for the 'version' variable, please use `dpkg-parsechangelog -S`
instead of sed
+ I didn't really check, but do you really need to do such mess by
generating the .install files at build time? seems, well... doesn't
*look* needed, at least.
* you have a librep9.symbols, probably you should rename it, and update
to have the newer symbols, and remove the old ones.
* please bump to debhelper compat 9
+ this will also make (or at least help) make the lib multiarch-able
- for this to work you need to start using dh_auto_configure instead
of manual calling ./configure, though
- note that with this several .install will need an update
- I see you already had troubles with --host and --build configure
flags: 1) I wonder why you need --host at all, we are not
cross-compiling... 2) dh_auto_configure takes care of --build.
- suggestion: stop fiddling so much, and use dh + dh_auto_configure.
* librep-dev.links => no, please. linking /usr/share/doc/<pkg>
directory ain't nice at all, why is that in first place?
+ but if you don't want to change it now it's fine, note that just
removing it and let dh take care of it isn't enough, you need a
maintscript for that
+ I see there already are preinst snippet to remove the directory. my
reaction to this is: wtf? it does so quite unconditionally and -.-'
* d/copyright:
+ I'd appreciate a DEP-5 copyright format (but I can live without)
* trailing whitespaces:
+ d/rules:46
it seems that this upload is going to start a library transition.
If so, then you need to upload to experimental, and follow
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions or, am I missing
something?
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