On Wednesday 07 February 2007 04:22, Jeff Carr wrote: Hi Jeff,
> I've uploaded a new package called xc3sprog. It's used for programming > Xilinx FPGA's. I've never quite understood the "right" way to package > up a debian package so there are probably a lot of really dumb things > I've done wrong. > > If someone could take a look at it and give me any pointers as to what > it would take to make it proper that would be great. If we are talking about : http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xc3sprog/xc3sprog_0.5.0-4.dsc (always give the url to your dsc file) then, please: 1) install the copyright file into the deb package (lintian will be happy, since this is a policy `must') 2) your copyright file should look like: This package was debianized by $YOU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on $date. It was downloaded from: $URL Upstream Author: $AUTHOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copyright: Copyright (c) $YEAR - by $PERSON. License: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. Debian packaging copyright: (C) 2007, $YOU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and is licensed under $LICENSE. 3) use debhelper compatibility level 5, and build-depend on debhelper (>= 5) 4) do not ship the elf binary of `debug' with the source package Otherwise the package looks fine to me, and I hope you will find a sponsor! -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
