Package: gnome-panel Version: 2.20.3-5 Severity: minor Hello, I'm new to Debian and packaging. Anyway I'm trying to contribute the switch to the new debian policy version 3.8.0 as per the upgrading-checklist.txt.
* The base section has been removed. contrib and non-free have been removed from the section list; they are only categories. The base system is now defined by priority. [OK] gnome-panel has not base section * If dpkg-source -x doesn't provide the source that will be compiled, a debian/rules patch target is recommended and should do whatever else is necessary. * If dpkg-source -x doesn't produce source ready for editing and building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a debian/README.source file explaining how to generate the patched source, add a new modification, and remove an existing modification. This file may also be used to document packaging a new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build process. [OK] dpkg-source -x gnome-panel*.dsc provides the source that will be compiled and the compilation is successful. * Standardized the format of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Specified permitted characters for tags, required that tags be whitespace-separated, allowed packages to assume non-conflicting tags, and required unknown flags be ignored. * Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS tags, indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel processes if the package supports it [??] No DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS neither in debian/rules nor in /usr/share/gnome-pkg-t * Debian packages should not use convience copies of code from other packages unless the included package is explicitly intended to be used that way. [OK] gnome-panel doesn't seem to contain any third-party software included in its distribution tarball. * The Uploaders field in debian/control may be wrapped. [OK] The Uploaders field is all in a row without line breaks that could span multiple lines. * An empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian revision of 0 in a version number. [OK] Current package has debian revision 6. * New Homepage field for upstream web sites. [OK] Other gnome packages have no upstream Homepage field. * The Breaks field declares that this package breaks another and prevents installation of the breaking package unless the package named in Breaks is deconfigured first. This field should not be used until the dpkg in Debian stable supports it. [OK] No package in Breaks field. * Clarify which files should go into a shared library package, into a separate package, or into the -dev package. Suggest -tools instead of -runtime for runtime support programs, since that naming is more common in Debian. [OK] gnome-panel seems to have no runtime support programs. * Files in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} must be configuration files (upgraded from should). Mention the hourly directory. [OK] gnome-panel seems to have no cron files. * Packages providing /etc/X11/Xresources files need not conflict with xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), which is long-obsolete. [OK] gnome-panel doesn't seem to provide such files. * Manual pages in locale-specific directories should use either the legacy encoding for that directory or UTF-8. Country names should not be included in locale-specific manual page directories unless indicating a significant difference in the language. All characters in the manual page source should be representable in the legacy encoding for a locale even if the man page is encoded in UTF-8. [OK] gnome-panel.1 is encoded in UTF-8 * The Apache 2.0 license is now in common-licenses and should be referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright. [OK] gnome-panel doesn't seem to use the Apache 2.0 license. * Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly explain why. [OK] gnome-panel is part of the main category. * Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names. [OK] gnome-panel has no debconf templates. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on: ii gnome-about 2.22.3-1 The GNOME about box ii gnome-control-center 1:2.22.2.1-2 utilities to configure the GNOME d ii gnome-desktop-data 2.22.3-1 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a ii gnome-menus 2.22.2-4 an implementation of the freedeskt ii gnome-panel-data 2.20.3-5 common files for the GNOME Panel ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libecal1.2-7 2.22.3-1 Client library for evolution calen ii libedataserver1.2-9 2.22.3-1 Utility library for evolution data ii libedataserverui1.2-8 2.22.3-1 GUI utility library for evolution ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2 2.22.3-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgnome-menu2 2.22.2-4 an implementation of the freedeskt ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-4 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii liborbit2 1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.20.3-5 library for GNOME Panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libwnck22 2.22.3-1 Window Navigator Construction Kit ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-3 X11 authorisation library ii menu-xdg 0.3 freedesktop.org menu compliant win Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends: ii alacarte 0.11.5-1 easy GNOME menu editing tool pn evolution-data-server <none> (no description available) ii gnome-applets 2.22.3-3 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel ii gnome-icon-theme 2.22.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gnome-session 2.22.3-1 The GNOME 2 Session Manager Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests: ii gnome-system-tools 2.22.0-2 Cross-platform configuration utili ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.22.3-2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.22.1-1 GNOME user's guide ii nautilus 2.20.0-6 file manager and graphical shell f ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 235-1 X terminal emulator ii yelp 2.22.1-8 Help browser for GNOME 2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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