On Wednesday 06 October 2004 23:12, Sven Mueller wrote: > Oded Shimon [u] wrote on 06/10/2004 20:33: > > I have already completed a package myself for kmenc15. > > I am now looking for a Debian sponsor for my program. > > The package can be found at > > http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15-0.01e.tar.gz > > http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-1.diff.gz > > http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-1.dsc > > http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-1_i386.build > > http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-1_i386.change > >s http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-1_i386.deb > > If you really want a sponsor for your package, try to get it lintian > clean first: > > apt-get install lintian > lintian -i kmenc15_0.01e-1_i386.changes > > And handle all infos/warnings/errors it gives you. > > More specifically: Current standards-version is 3.6.1.1, so your new > package should adhere to that. Yes, I saw that lintian warning, I didn't think it mattered so much, since I couldn't even find what the current version is...
> Also, your package description should be a bit more specific as to what > it needs to run and what it would like to see. If it absolutely needs > netpbm to provide previews (and a VirtualDub replacement without preview > is certainly not very usefull), you should probably depend on it. I thought I already put netpbm as a dependency... Oh I see I put it as a recommendation... *changed* I'm still keeping sox as a recommendation, its only needed for the actual encode. > If your program can create shell scripts (or whatever) if it doesn't > find MEncoder, your description should say so. Yeah, I should tidy up that description a bit, will do. It can make a shell scripts, I'll add that too... > Also, as some people already pointed out, a program in Debian can still > Suggest(s) a program which isn't available in Debian itself. So I would > put a > Suggests: mencoder (>= 1.0) > line into the control file. Good idea, MEncoder doesn't come in its own package, only with MPlayer. > It is also common policy not to put lines like your last two into the > description. Right, my bad... now I know. *fixed* > And finally, on a somewhat related note: Many people won't be able to > reach your email-address, since quite a few mailservers are configured > only to deliver to addressess for which an MX entry exists in DNS. ;-) I have yet to have problem with it... So far I've used it only for very few things, mostly debian mailing lists.. So far so good. :) > regards, > sven Thanks for your reply, I've gotten so far very few replies on my program. :( > PS: The right thing to look for a sponsor is to post a RFS (request for > sponsor) on debian-mentors in addition to the ITP bug. Yes, I did that, I also put an RFS debian-kde and debian-qt-kde, but no luck yet. (1 week... probably no chance at this point.) Gonna have to add here, are you a DD? And is there any chance you can sponsor my program?... Made all the changes, new package at: http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-2.diff.gz http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-2.dsc http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-2_i386.build http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-2_i386.changes http://ares.penguinhosting.net/~ods15/kmenc15/kmenc15_0.01e-2_i386.deb ods15