On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 23:05:14 +0100 Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]> wrote:
> (IANADD, so no upload from me - sorry) But thanks for your advice. > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 10:43:04PM +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: > > Lintian gave a couple of warnings because it thought I was trying to > > perform a NMU. Presumably a sponsor will update the system to list > > me as maintainer and that will be resolved? > > At the moment you are NMUing because your changelog tail doesn't match > the Maintainer field in debian/control. Set the Maintainer to you to > indicate that you're adopting this package. Doh, I missed the obvious again :-/. > Lintian also complains that: > > P: roxterm source: direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system > roxterm-config.1 and 1 more > P: roxterm: copyright-refers-to-symlink-license > usr/share/common-licenses/GPL > I: roxterm: desktop-entry-contains-encoding-key > /usr/share/applications/roxterm.desktop:2 Encoding > > (to see this output, run lintian with -IE --pedantic) > > They're not the end of the world, but you should take care of them if > you can. Thanks, I've fixed those. > I may be wrong, but you should probably test in your postinst what apt > wants you to do (install, upgrade, abort etc). See > /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/postinst.ex for an example. The > summary at the top is useful. Blindly using 'update-alternatives > --install' isn't very helpful in some circumstances. Your prerm script > does do this check. After reading the follow-ups I left this as it is. I've uploaded 1.15.2-1 (I made a couple of the fixes upstream). The upload appeared to go OK but it isn't showing up in the pool etc yet. Is that normal? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
