On Sunday 15 June 2008, Thomas Knott wrote: > Dear mentors, Hi,
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gtkwhiteboard". It was uploaded > before by José "L. Redrejo" RodrÃguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > but got rejected because the upstream source contains a win32-dll without > source. I stripped the dll now, added a README.debian-source and a > (probably bad) get-orig-source.sh to create the dfsg-tarball from the > upstream zip-file. Providing a watch file would be nice, as well as a machine-interpretable debian/copyright: see http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat Just a minor note about your rules:get-orig-source you might find useful. No need to call chmod on get-orig-source.sh to make it executable and then worry to chmod it back to a non-executable in your clean target (which you actually forgot to;-). Just a call like "sh get-orig-source.sh" would do the job. Also, you might want to delete the zip file within debian/ and put the dfsg tarball outside debian/, e.g.: rm -f WiimoteLib.dll gtkwhiteboard-1.3.zip tar -czf ../gtkwhiteboard_1.3+dfsg.orig.tar.gz * --exclude=\.dll You might also want to teach upstream not to distribute ugly object files with their tarball, or at least to distribute them separately. I hope you will find a sponsor. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]