Le Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:13:24AM -0500, Tony Palma a écrit : > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.3.18-3 > of my package "calcoo". Just a upgrade. > > It builds these binary packages: > calcoo - Scientific calculator (GTK+)
Dear Tony, I had a look at calcoo and your changes for version 1.3.18-3. The previous maintainer of the calcoo package was the upstream maintainer himself, and he stopped updating the package at the same time as he stopped making upstream releases. Did you try to contact him in the past or recently ? More in general, what is your long-term plan for calcoo? How about maintaining it in a team (http://wiki.debian.org/Teams), or storing the source package in a VCS? All of this will help for the cases where you are unavailable for more than a couple of weeks (as for your balazar packages for instance). About our changes for 1.3.18-3: I noted that you commented one line in debian/rules. Unless the comment is there to carry a message, it may be clearer to just delete the line. This comented line is dh_clean -k, that is deprecated by dh_prep. So the most proper change would have been to replace it by dh_prep. In the case of your package, it does not seem to make a difference… Once you have a good grasp of what Debhelper is doing for each key target of debian/rules (clean, build, install, binary,…), you may be interested in factorizing most of the code by the use of Debhelper 7 as in ‘/usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.tiny’. Your package has has a menu file but no FreeDesktop entry. At your option and pace, maybe you can consider adding a ‘.desktop’ file. I uploaded 1.3.18-3. You may have noticed the discussions this week: the RFS traffic is increasing and we need people to step up and reach a level where they can upload independantly. Your first upload of calcoo was more than one year ago. Do you think that there is a DD who know your contribution well enough to recommend you as a DM? Importantly, even after you become a DM you are still most welcome to ask for advice on this list. After becoming a DD, I still occasionally do as well. Lastly, it would be great if you could spare some time to have a look to one fresh RFS on this list, and report the issues you find, or make suggestions for improvement. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
