Control: tags -1 moreinfo On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 02:18:03AM +0800, Haolin Xue wrote: > On Sat, 2026-02-21 at 13:04 +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: > > - d/README.upstream > > > > This file doesn't really have relevant information for Debian users > > installing the binary package; if, then the extra information about > > the > > package should be part of the long description. > > The installation section is mood for binary packages. > > > > The usage part should be part of the manpage. > > > > I'd drop that file. > > > > (Dropping d/README and d/README.source was the right thing) > > > > - d/changelog.upstream > > > > This seems to be a relict from the previous packages - drop it. > > > I dropped d/README.upstream and d/changelog.upstream. > > - d/control > > > > The long description needs updating, see Debian Policy §3.4 > > - License information go to d/copyright, not to the long description. > > - "It is not copyrighted." - can you expand what you mean? > > (In many countries something cannot not be legally "not > > copyrighted", > > as e.g in Germany a author cannot legally not havin copyright.) > > It seems to be contradicting information in d/copyright. > > Please clarify & and fix. > > > Now long description of fortunes-dhammapada only contains editions' > translators and languages. I also checked and fixed names in > d/copyright and d/control.
Thanks! However, the long description of Package: fortunes-dhammapada still is not explaining what this package is all about, imagine a user that never heard of "dhammapada" I'd suggest to just copy the first part of the long desription from display-dhammapada to this package as well. Af > > lintian: > > I: fortunes-dhammapada: spare-manual-page > > [usr/share/man/man1/fortunes-dhammapada.1.gz] > > > > (maybe the manpage is in the wrong section - section 1 is for > > executables / programs.) > I applied a patch to fix man pages and updated d/rules to rename them. > Now they are in section 6, so there will be no such lintian warning. Thanks! > Additionally, I added a new dependence "gawk"for display-dhammapada, > for the upstream code depends on it to work properly. > > The updated code is available on > https://salsa.debian.org/tzbkk/display-dhammapada > > Thanks for your review! > > Regards, > Haolin Xue -- Cheers, tobi
