On 02/09/2018 04:05 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Dear Sebastian, > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 09:48:50AM -0700, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> Hello Scientists, I'm looking for a sponsor/uploader/reviewer/mentor for my >> package dxf2gcode. >> >> This version is a very minor change, just noting in the debian/control >> Vcs-* fields that I moved the git repo to salsa. >> >> * Package name : dxf2gcode >> Version : 20170925-7 >> Upstream Author : Christian Kohloffel <christian-kohloef...@t-online.de> >> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/p/dxf2gcode/wiki/Home/ >> * License : GPL-3+ >> Section : science > > There are a couple of issues with your package:
Thank you for the feedback! > - since the package has never been uploaded to Debian, there should be a > single > entry in the changelog, only saying "Initial release. (Closes: #NNNNNN)" > where NNNNN is the ITP bug number. The version should be 20170925-1. > There is no need to document changes between versions that never hit Debian That makes sense. I'll remove the incorrect debian/* tags from the repo, re-write the changelog, and re-release version 20170925-1. Should I leave the package as "UNRELEASED" (in the changelog) until it makes it further through the review process, or should the uploaded package be released (to unstable)? Will there be a problem with the higher-numbered versions I've already uploaded to mentors.d.n? > - the package description in debian/control is too cryptic. I am unable to > understand what the package does by just reading it. You should probably > expand it a little bit, in particular explaining the meaning of the various > acronyms. Oops! Yeah, I can see how that's not clear to people outside this specific field, I'll try to rewrite it to be more accessible. > I did not try to build the package, so there may be other problems. The package builds cleanly in a sid pbuilder chroot. I got some feedback from Juhani Numminen about build problems, which I addressed. There are a few small lintian warnings remaning which I'll fix before the next upload. > Also note that I will personally not sponsor the package if it is not > maintained in the Debian Science Team. If you want to do so, you should update > the Maintainer field, read the Debian Science Policy, and move the repository > to the Debian Science group on Salsa. Also note that, for sponsoring within > the > Debian Science Team, we do not rely on mentors.debian.net; we sponsor directly > from the git repository on salsa. That all makes sense. I put the packaging repo on salsa [1], and I'd be happy to move it from my personal namespace to the Debian Science group, but my understanding is I don't have the authority to do that. (And I've not yet heard that Debian Science actually wants the package.) 1: https://salsa.debian.org/seb_kuzminsky-guest/dxf2gcode -- Sebastian Kuzminsky
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