On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:58:59 +0800 Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Yuri D'Elia<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "trend". > > Which of the things I wrote in private mail did you take action on and > which actions did you take for each of them? First, I made sure that the package built from source in a chroot (this is the first time I ever used pbuilder/cowbuilder/etc). qemubuilder looked promising for testing all the archs at once, but failed to work for me (bug #441043). The package built fine inside cowbuilder/pbuilder from a fresh sid in both i386/amd64 variants. The package built and executed fine inside a native ppc debian host that I have here (again using pbuilder). I tried crosscompiling with gcc also for arm looking for compilation issues, but I didn't try all the other variants inside the qemu images you suggested. The source does not contain any libraries. No compilation warnings are produced. I tested the executable against valgrind (with both memcheck and helgrind; since I "am" upstream, this was a rather easy task). For instance, lintian only reported warnings in the man page which I didn't notice before, so I fixed them directly in the original source package with a new release instead of bloating the package with patch managers. There are no security threats that the package can expose directly. This is a simple, non-setuid program. There are no configuration files with permission issues. No files are ever created directly. No network connections are established. I did read already most of documentation links you sent me. After reading again the debian policy I've switched the priority or the original package from optional to extra. I also switched the versioning scheme of the upstream source to mayor.minor (I previously just had a date). I'm using the package myself on all my machines. The only unclear task was about uploading the package to mentors.debian.org. Why building a binary package is required if only the source is used? I didn't assign any package tags in debian/control. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
