Thank you for the feedback and changes, Andreas. I've fixed that lintian warning about the man page with a patch, it was an invalid control sequence in the man page. Now lintian is clean.
I believe the package is ready for upload! thanks Scott On Feb 11, 2011, at 3:02 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:44:11PM -0600, Scott Christley wrote: >> I just committed the initial packaging for libtecla, ITP bug #612625. I >> would be happy if somebody could review my package. >> >> When I run lintian I get these messages, I kinda understand the errors but >> am not sure how to resolve. For example, how do I indicate this package >> closes an ITP bug? I had to make a patch for the Makefile but I don't >> understand what lintian is complaining about. >> >> >> W: libtecla source: newer-standards-version 3.9.1 (current is 3.8.0) > > Probably an old lintian version? For development issues you should definitely > > sudo apt-get install -t unstable lintian > > or even more clever put the following content into > /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-linitan.pref > > Package: lintian > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 601 > > Just note: Even if you are using a pbuilder unstable chroot lintian will > be runned on your local machine. > >> E: libtecla source: patch-modifying-debian-files add-destdir.patch >> debian/Makefile.in > > You should probably put the following text into your ~/.quiltrc > > QUILT_DIFF_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index" > QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index" > QUILT_PATCH_OPTS="--unified-reject-files" > QUILT_PATCHES="debian/patches" > > This is written in Debian Med policy[1]. Once you have this you > can simply do: > > quilt push > quilt refresh > > and the message is gone. > >> W: libtecla1-dev: manpage-has-errors-from-man >> usr/share/man/man3/gl_get_line.3.gz 1659: warning: `\n'' not defined > > I have not checked this > >> W: libtecla1-dev: new-package-should-close-itp-bug >> W: libtecla1: new-package-should-close-itp-bug > > You forgot to mention the ITP bug number in your changelog. > > Once I used newer lintian I've got some more warnings I have fixed with > the exception of the man page related ones. I do not think that these > do not deserve fixing but I currently do not have time to dive into > this. You usually get valuable hints when running `lintian -i` and if > you try `lintian -i -I` you get even more hints about problems in > manpages: > > BTW, I changed your short description which was actually no short > description but rather the starting phrase of the long description. > Please read developers reference about this. > > Just let us know when you consider the package ready for sponsering. > > Kind regards and thanks for picking up this packaging task > > Andreas. > > [1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
