Kilian Krause <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Nikolaus, > > On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 21:05 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "s3ql". >> >> * Package name : s3ql >> Version : 1.0.1-1 >> Upstream Author : me (Nikolaus Rath >> <[email protected]>) >> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/s3ql/ >> * License : GPLv3 >> Section : misc >> >> It builds these binary packages: >> s3ql - Full-featured file system for online data storage >> >> The package appears to be lintian clean. >> >> ITP: 626651 >> >> I'd be happy to join the python-apps-team and have this team maintained, >> but so far I did not get any response on my request to join the team on >> Alioth. Should I be doing anything else? >> >> >> At the moment, the package can be found on mentors.debian.net: >> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/s3ql >> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main >> contrib non-free >> - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/s3ql/s3ql_1.0.1-1.dsc >> >> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > > Thanks for your work. Here goes my comments: > > 1. You use quilt as build-depends. This should not be neccessary with > dpkg-source v3.
It seems to be. Without quilt: dh clean --with python2,quilt dh: unable to load addon quilt: Can't locate Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/quilt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.3 /usr/local/share/perl/5.12.3 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.12 /usr/share/perl/5.12 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 23) line 2. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 23) line 2. > 3. debian/README.Debian doesn't need to be in *.docs. See man > dh_installdocs: Thanks, fixed. > 4. Downloading > http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/distribute/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz > Extracting in /tmp/tmpeY0G4V > > OUCH! buildds do not all have internet access. Your package should build > fine without that. Moreover the contents of the pulled in tarball could > be anything. Thus ensuring DFSG-free sources is virtually impossible > when external sources are pulled in. > > 5. Your package doesn't build in pbuilder: > > dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory doc > dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to > s3ql-1.0.1/distribute-0.6.14.tar.gz: binary file contents changed That's weird, it works just fine here, and it also does not download anything but uses the existing python-setuptools. Can you tell me what commands you used to get this? Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
