On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 23:46:18 (CEST), rosea grammostola wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Arnout Engelen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:29:00PM +0200, rosea grammostola wrote: >> > As a not very experienced packager, I've added ghostess >> > >> > http://git.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/ghostess.git/ >> > >> > Comments are welcome. >> >> I'm very new at this still also, but a good place to start would be fixing >> any >> lintian warnings/errors: >> >> Now running lintian... >> W: ghostess source: changelog-should-mention-nmu >> > > maintainer is debian multimedia team right?
yes, the correct maintainer field is documented on the DevelopPackaging wiki page. > >> W: ghostess source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 20100326-1 >> > > this is not allowed? > > >> W: ghostess source: no-human-maintainers >> > with the correct maintainer field, these three issue should go away. > > >> E: ghostess: copyright-contains-dh_make-todo-boilerplate >> > > hmm ok > > >> W: ghostess: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/ghostess >> W: ghostess: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/ghostess_universal_gui >> Finished running lintian. >> > > Should I add a manpage? Any recommendations how (it looks the README file > contains manpage info)? > > Two manpages? Bonus points for generating the manpage from something that is maintained upstream. Outdated, wrong manpages are worse than no manpages at all. If you write a new manpage, at least try to get them submitted upstream. > Should there be a menu entry or desktop file? I think desktop files are more important nowadays, but YMMV. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
