Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:36:59AM +, Alan Baghumian wrote: > * Package name: xfardic First, it would be nice if the subject could contain the package's name. Perhaps the m.d.n boilerplate could include it. The big four tests: * lintian: I'm afraid there are four issues, all in

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-22 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:31:46PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:36:59AM +, Alan Baghumian wrote: > > * Package name : xfardic > > First, it would be nice if the subject could contain the package's > name. Perhaps the m.d.n boilerplate could include it. Good h

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-22 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:31 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > * On the first upload, debian/changelog should have just one entry. > This is somewhat clumsy if you have a history of this package in > your private/local repository (like me with debs of kbtin on > SourceForge), but I remember someon

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-22 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Haas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:31:46PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:36:59AM +, Alan Baghumian wrote: >>> * Package name : xfardic >> First, it would be nice if the subject could contain the pack

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I'm not sure about a specific incident, but in general I'd say that > for an otherwise unreleased package, more than one changelog entry > is quite redundant. There's no reason to bother people with the > different versions that never left your hard dri

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:55:11PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:31 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > * On the first upload, debian/changelog should have just one entry. > > This is somewhat clumsy if you have a history of this package in > > your private/local reposito

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-30 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
* Thu 2006-06-22 Thijs Kinkhorst * Message-Id: 1150991711.6266.11.camel AT darwin.os9.nl > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:31 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> * On the first upload, debian/changelog should have just one entry. >> This is somewhat clumsy if you have a history of this package in >> you

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-30 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 11:49 +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: > The history in package indicates that there has been work going on > before the package was added to Debian. The history documents the > changes and gives indication of overall activity and competence the > package was previously han

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-30 Thread Florent Rougon
Often, changelog entries explain why certain technical packaging decisions were made (for instance, Build-Depend on "foo >= $version" because of $reason). These entries are definitely useful, even if they happened before the first release uploaded to the Debian archive. -- Florent -- To UNSUBS

Re: Request-For-Sponsorship (xfardic)

2006-06-30 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 30 June 2006 20:43, Florent Rougon wrote: > Often, changelog entries explain why certain technical packaging > decisions were made (for instance, Build-Depend on "foo >= $version" > because of $reason). These entries are definitely useful, even if they > happened before the first release