Hi Gabriel, thanks for working on packaging pragha for Debian!
First, let's get your bugs in shape: 1. Correct the metadata of the wnpp bug [1] for pragha You should set yourself as the owner of that bug and retitle it from RFP (request for packaging) to ITP (intent to package). The easiest way to do that now is to send a mail to [email protected] using the retitle and owner commands (check the reference manual [2]). Your wnpp bug for bash-completion [3] also needs to be adjusted. I noticed you tried to do that already. It's a bit confusing at the beginning, because the bug tracking system accepts different commands depending on whether you * submit a new bug via [email protected], * send information to a bug report using [email protected] (where NNN is the bug number) or * modify a bug using [email protected] If you need help just ask. 2. Please file a new bug for the sponsorship-request Basically you only need to re-send the last mail you sent to bug #592985 to [email protected]. The sponsorhip request is supposed to be a new bug and not part of the "intend to package" bug. This is important, otherwise the nice Debian Developers who regularly review and sponsor work from new contributors won't be aware of your request. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/592985 [2] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control [3] https://bugs.debian.org/876095 That's it for the bugs. I've also taken a look at your pragha package as uploaded to mentors and I have some feedback: * Please use a version control system to manage your packaging work. This makes it a lot easier to collaborate on packages and to review any changes you make in the future. * Keep the version at 1.3.3-1. We only increase the last part of the version once a package has been uploaded to the archive. Just remove your old uploads from the mentors web interface and re-upload your improved package again as version 1.3.3-1. * You should use debhelper compatibility level to 10: - this allows you to drop autotools-dev (both from debian/rules and from the Build-Dependencies in debian/control) - It will enable the dh-autoreconf sequence; this is a good thing but does not work out of the box for your package because the configure.ac file depends on autotools macros from the xfce developer tools; to perform the autotools update using the xfce4-dev-tools: . add xfce4-dev-tools to the Build-Dependencies . add the following to debian/rules override_dh_autoreconf: NOCONFIGURE=1 dh_autoreconf xdt-autogen * The current Standards-Version is now 4.1.0. * If you want you can get rid of some of the version constraints in the Build-Depends; use `cme check dpkg` to find out which ones. I hope this helps. [email protected] is the right place to ask if you have questions (also for your work on bash-completion). Regards Lukas
