On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Adam Borowski <[email protected]>, 2011-07-26, 13:32: > >I'd like to ask for a sponsor for an update to hashalot (a tool > >needed by cryptsetup, obsolete nowadays but some folks still use > >it). > > > >There's just one minor documentation fix, but I also nuked the whole > >debian/rules replacing it with oh-so-long dh two liner. > > Did you verify that your new d/rules does everything that the old > one did?
Yes, actually it does a bit more: the old one failed to install the upstream changelog. I just checked that it cross-builds correctly too, dh is smart enough to disable the testsuite on cross builds like the old d/rules did. > >http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/hashalot/hashalot_0.3-6.dsc > > Rather than "debhelper (>= 8.0.0)" I'd simply use "debhelper (>= > 8)". That way the build-dependency will be satisfied by debhelper > 8.0.0~bpo50+2, which is currently in backports/lenny. Good point, did it and re-uploaded to mentors (same URL). > You bumped debian/compat, bumped standards version, added Homepage > field - none of these things are documented in the changelog. I do believe that such entries are spam that is counterproductive and hides real changes: * debian/compat is implied by migrating to dh * updating standards is something every single sane sourceful upload does (lintian screaming at people helps here) * Homepage is just moving around stuff that used to be in debian/copyright Thus, I'd prefer to avoid useless entries. Of course, if giving up on this cosmetic issue would let me mooch an upload from you, I'll concede. Meow! -- 1KB // Yo momma uses IPv4! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
