On 09/05/27 23:57 +0530, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag said ... > > > On 09/05/27 11:03 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones said ... > > > > Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package 'febootstrap'. > > > > > > I will review the package and will send in comments (if any) / do an upload.
Comments:
- in debian/control, Section should be admin (not devel) and priority should
be optional (not extra).
- debian/control: Remove ${shlibs:Depends} from Depends, you don't need it.
- I am not happy with the presubj file. People using a Debian package expect
to file bugs in the Debian BTS and forcing them to use a different reporting
system (that requires them to signup for an account) is not nice. As a
package maintainer, it is your responsibility to 'forward' bugs upstream
etc. Most users don't know what "bug is with Debian packaging" means.
BTW, presubj files can be installed using dh_bugfiles (but that is not
relevant here).
- A lot of dh_* commands from the dh_make templates are still in debian/rules
but commented, please remove them.
- dh_strip in debian/rules is not necessary.
- Your intention in using dh_installexamples in debian/rules is to install
"examples" folder also to /usr/share/doc, but examples are not installed,
see dh_installexamples(1)
- The CVS directories (both upstream tarball as well as in the diff.gz)
clutter the directories, please remove them.
- Please run latest lintian (as lintian -EI --pedantic) on the package. Of
the tags that lintian reports, build-depends-without-arch-dep,
debian-watch-file-is-missing (and also diff-contains-cvs-control-dir,
source-contains-cvs-control-dir?) are worth fixing. Hint: lintian-info(1)
and dpkg-buildpackage -I -i. For fixes that you intend to make in the
upstream tarball for the next upstream release, please include lintian
overrides (See dh_lintian(1))
- Typo in debian/changelog: "Remove comments from Debian/rules" Debian should
not be capitalised there.
- In debian/copyright, please include the "How to Apply These Terms to Your
New Programs" related text instead of just "GPL (v2+)" in License:
Suggestions:
- It is usually a good idea to maintain the debian packaging also in a VCS.
Even though this package is simple, since you are also the upstream, I was
wondering if you you would be interested in maintaining the Debian packaging
also in upstream git (possibly on a debian branch). In case you implement
this suggestion, please add Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser to debian/control.
- Since you are using debhelper >= 7, have you considered using "dh" (your
debian/rules will be very simple).
- Please do include an "upstream changelog" from the next upstream release
onwards.
- Since /usr/share/doc/febootstrap/README complains rather loudly that it is
required to patch 2.8, consider including the patches in the doc directory
as well.
Best regards,
Giridhar
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