Bug#766000: RFS: id3lib3.8.3/3.8.3-16
(I do not intend to sponsor this package) Stefan, your package does contain lintian warnings. Many sponsor will not even look at your package with warnings present, so I advise you to fix them. Thanks -- tobi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#766000: RFS: id3lib3.8.3/3.8.3-16
On 10/26/2014 01:43 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: (I do not intend to sponsor this package) Stefan, your package does contain lintian warnings. Many sponsor will not even look at your package with warnings present, so I advise you to fix them. Hi Tobias Thanks for the advice. Most of the current lintian warnings are pedantic or wishlist and some of them directly affect the build process. Since this upload adds multi-arch support to the package I didn't want to mess too much with other aspects of building the package - I'd rather have just one major building-related change per package revision, makes it a bit easier to find bugs. Also, the warning about dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink (which is the only real complaint from lintian that I see) is IMHO not entirely correct. lintian seems to expect a symlink called libid3-3.8.so while the policy manual says The development package should contain a symlink for the associated shared library without a version number. I'm assuming that this is because the id3lib package has not seen an upstream release in over a decade and we are carrying lots of packing-related information in our version strings these days (such as the c2a from the C++ ABI change in 2005). I could of course just add a lintian override and be done with it but I figured it would be better to keep this warning around as a reminder for me to look into the issue. Anyway, I *did* upload a new version which fixes a small issue with the previous upload and I'm looking forward to additional comments. If anyone feels the urge to upload it that would be appreciated. cheers -- Stefan Ott http://www.ott.net/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#766000: RFS: id3lib3.8.3/3.8.3-16
Am Sonntag, den 26.10.2014, 15:34 +0100 schrieb Stefan Ott: On 10/26/2014 01:43 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: (I do not intend to sponsor this package) Stefan, your package does contain lintian warnings. Many sponsor will not even look at your package with warnings present, so I advise you to fix them. Hi Tobias Thanks for the advice. Most of the current lintian warnings are pedantic or wishlist and some of them directly affect the build process. Since this upload adds multi-arch support to the package I didn't want to mess too much with other aspects of building the package - I'd rather have just one major building-related change per package revision, makes it a bit easier to find bugs. pedantic There are no wishlist lintian messages /pedantic Also, the warning about dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink (which is the only real complaint from lintian that I see) is IMHO not entirely correct. lintian seems to expect a symlink called libid3-3.8.so while the policy manual says The development package should contain a symlink for the associated shared library without a version number. I'm assuming that this is because the id3lib package has not seen an upstream release in over a decade and we are carrying lots of packing-related information in our version strings these days (such as the c2a from the C++ ABI change in 2005). I could of course just add a lintian override and be done with it but I figured it would be better to keep this warning around as a reminder for me to look into the issue. I'm have doubts. I think lintian is right. You know what's your library name and you know the version part? I'm not an library guru, but I think the library name is libid3-3.8 and the version is 3.0.0, so lintian expectd a symling from usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libid3-3.8.so to usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libid3-3.8.so.3.0.0 For the other messages, at least P no-dep5-copyright are easily fixable and dep5 is IMHO now considered as best-practice. just my 2 cents. Anyway, I *did* upload a new version which fixes a small issue with the previous upload and I'm looking forward to additional comments. If anyone feels the urge to upload it that would be appreciated. cheers -- tobi signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Bug#766000: RFS: id3lib3.8.3/3.8.3-16
On 10/26/2014 06:13 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: pedantic There are no wishlist lintian messages /pedantic Hmm, it says Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain :) Anyway I'm have doubts. I think lintian is right. You know what's your library name and you know the version part? I'm not an library guru, but I think the library name is libid3-3.8 and the version is 3.0.0, so lintian expectd a symling from usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libid3-3.8.so to usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libid3-3.8.so.3.0.0 You certainly have a point there, the file names are indeed a good indicator. Yet libid3.so is the file name that upstream builds. If I were to change it, would that not potentially lead to all kinds of issues with other software that compiles against libid3? For the other messages, at least P no-dep5-copyright are easily fixable and dep5 is IMHO now considered as best-practice. That is true, a new version with a dep5 copyright file has been uploaded. cheers -- Stefan Ott http://www.ott.net/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#766000: RFS: id3lib3.8.3/3.8.3-16
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package id3lib3.8.3 * Package name: id3lib3.8.3 Version : 3.8.3-16 Upstream Author : Dirk Mahoney, Scott Thomas Haug * URL : http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2 Section : libs It builds those binary packages: * libid3-3.8.3-dev - ID3 Tag Library: Development Libraries and Header Files * libid3-3.8.3c2a - library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags * libid3-doc - ID3 Tag Library: Documentation * libid3-tools - ID3 Tag Library: Utilities To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/id3lib3.8.3 Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/id3lib3.8.3/id3lib3.8.3_3.8.3-16.dsc Changes since the last upload: * debian/patches: - Added 31-fix-utf16-stringlists.patch (closes: #680915) - Fixed typos in 20-create-manpages.patch (closes: #669875) * Added multiarch support (closes: #723185) * debian/control: - Removed DM-Upload-Allowed field - Updated Standards-Version to 3.9.6 - Updated Vcs- fields to use canonical URIs * Removed reference to remote icons from the HTML documentation * Added lintian override for a false-positive spelling error * Moved libid3.so symlink from the -dev package to the library package Regards -- Stefan Ott http://www.ott.net/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
