On Sat, 2026-02-21 at 13:04 +0100, Tobias Frost wrote: > - d/README.upstream > > This file doesn't really have relevant information for Debian users > installing the binary package; if, then the extra information about > the > package should be part of the long description. > The installation section is mood for binary packages. > > The usage part should be part of the manpage. > > I'd drop that file. > > (Dropping d/README and d/README.source was the right thing) > > - d/changelog.upstream > > This seems to be a relict from the previous packages - drop it. > I dropped d/README.upstream and d/changelog.upstream. > - d/control > > The long description needs updating, see Debian Policy §3.4 > - License information go to d/copyright, not to the long description. > - "It is not copyrighted." - can you expand what you mean? > (In many countries something cannot not be legally "not > copyrighted", > as e.g in Germany a author cannot legally not havin copyright.) > It seems to be contradicting information in d/copyright. > Please clarify & and fix. > Now long description of fortunes-dhammapada only contains editions' translators and languages. I also checked and fixed names in d/copyright and d/control. > lintian: > I: fortunes-dhammapada: spare-manual-page > [usr/share/man/man1/fortunes-dhammapada.1.gz] > > (maybe the manpage is in the wrong section - section 1 is for > executables / programs.) I applied a patch to fix man pages and updated d/rules to rename them. Now they are in section 6, so there will be no such lintian warning.
Additionally, I added a new dependence "gawk"for display-dhammapada, for the upstream code depends on it to work properly. The updated code is available on https://salsa.debian.org/tzbkk/display-dhammapada Thanks for your review! Regards, Haolin Xue
