Thank you for your quick and courtious reply. I made the suggested changes, and the new packages is availible at geocities.com/vze49jxa.
Regarding the communication problem, I can also be emailed at [EMAIL PROTECTED], which should work fine with European mail servers. Some things to note: 1. I could not get the "patch-stamp" file to be generated without an error, so I did not include that code in the debian/rules file as suggested in the dpatch manpages. 2. The upstream package is not *NIX specific, so I am unsure of the appropriateness of sending the manpage upstream. I shall do so if you still insist that I should, however. 3. Regarding the copyright file, the software is not copyrighted, so it is not under any license. There was something on the debian-legal list a while back that is archived at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/07/msg00307.html. I was unsure whether I was supposed to reply to you personally or reply via the mailing list, so I replied via the mailing list since that seemed to be what everyone else was doing. If that was not what I was supposed to do, please let me know, and I will not do it in the future. Many thanks, Daniel Milstein On Monday 31 October 2005 3:57 pm, Christoph Haas wrote: > Hi, Daniel... > > On Monday 31 October 2005 03:07, Daniel Milstein wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone would be interesting in sponsoring the > > stopwatch, a virtual stopwatch and timer program, package, which is in > > the public domain. I could not find any programs like it in APT, > > although there may be some that I overlooked. > > I had also looked for a simple stopwatch program but couldn't find one. > So perhaps there is none in Debian yet. :) > > > Its ITP bug number is 336534 and the package > > can be found at http://geocities.com/vze49jxa. It > > is lintian and linda clean and has been thoroughly tested. Its upstream > > source is http://expect.nist.gov/stopwatch. > > Hints/Suggestions: > > - you altered the Makefile but I don't see why > - If you need to change the base path of "wish" I suggest you do that > through the powers of "dpatch" instead of changing the script > directly. Otherwise you will have to do that with every new > upstream release. > - instead of copying (cp) files around you may also use dh_install > and dh_installman for consistency. > - the debian/rules file contains dh_ lines that can be removed. > dh_link for example. And all the lines that are commented out. > - have you offered the man page to the upstream for inclusion in > the next upstream version? > - you use docbook-to-man but at the same time your diff.gz contains > a stopwatch.1x file. Shouldn't that be created during building? > - the debian/copyright is too minimal. Include the proper years of > copyright. And clarify the license. "public domain" doesn't mean much. > Check the DFSG. > > I would generally help and sponsor your package. But since verizon.net is > rejecting mail from my mail server (mx.workaround.org) for a year and does > not intend to talk to me why they do that it may be hard to communicate > with you. (Someone should kick them hard.) > > Christoph > -- > > |\ _,,,---,,_ Famous last words of a sysadmin: > > /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ "We'll do the backup tomorrow." > <|,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
