On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:52:55PM +0300, Juuso T?hk?p?? wrote: > I intend to package and maintain Torsmo, ( http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/ ) > a light and simplistic resource monitof for X. I am in the process of > learning to properly use debian packaging tools, and already managed to make > a package that installs, uninstalls and works correctly, but I can't figure > out what lintian warns me about: > > $lintian -i torsmo_0.15-1_i386.changes > W: torsmo source: changelog-should-mention-nmu > N: > N: When you NMU a package, that fact should be mentioned on the first > N: line in the changelog entry. > N: > W: torsmo source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 0.15-1 > N: > N: A source NMU should have a Debian revision of '-x.x'. This is to > N: prevent stealing version numbers from the maintainer (and the -x.x.x > N: version numbers are reserved for binary-only NMU's). > > What configs should I fix, or is this normal in some cases?
I got from the .changes: Maintainer: Juuso T??hk??p???? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Juuso T????hk????p???????? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is the cause. You should write your name in debian/control at 'Maintainer:' in UTF-8 too for the Debian archive scripts to recognise this is the same person (and thus recognise it as a maintainer upload, rather than a Non-Maintainer Upload aka NMU). Historically, only plain ASCII (that is excluding the a with <how do you call that in finnish?>) is allowed in debian/control, but if you're going to violate that (unwritten) rule (which is quite common and an understandable wish) you should use UTF-8. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
