Bug#960972: RFS: cellwriter/1.3.6-2 [QA] -- grid-entry handwriting input panel

2020-05-18 Thread Sudip Mukherjee
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cellwriter"

 * Package name: cellwriter
   Version : 1.3.6-2
   Upstream Author : Michael Levin 
 * URL : https://github.com/risujin/cellwriter
 * License : GPL-2+
 * Vcs : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cellwriter
   Section : gnome

It builds those binary packages:

  cellwriter - grid-entry handwriting input panel

To access further information about this package, please visit the following 
URL:

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/cellwriter

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x 
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cellwriter/cellwriter_1.3.6-2.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

   * QA upload.
 .
   [ Debian Janitor ]
   * Trim trailing whitespace.
   * Bump debhelper from old 11 to 12.
   * Set upstream metadata fields: Bug-Submit, Repository.
   * Fix day-of-week for changelog entries 1.3.4-1, 1.3.3-1, 1.3.1-1,
 1.3.0-1.
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   [ Sudip Mukherjee ]
   * Fix FTBFS with gcc-10. (Closes: #957075)
   * Update Standards-Version to 4.5.0
   * Update compat level to 13.


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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:12:56 -0300
Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 And it's not necessary to have Encoding=UTF-8 in cellwriter.desktop.

That may come back and bite you if cellwriter.desktop contains
translated strings (as it should).

$ desktop-file-validate desktop/gpe-expenses.desktop 
desktop/gpe-expenses.desktop: error: required key Encoding not found

I would recommend reinstating the Encoding line and testing all future
desktop files with desktop-file-validate, part of desktop-file-utils.

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-09 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi!

On 9/9/07, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  And it's not necessary to have Encoding=UTF-8 in cellwriter.desktop.

 I would recommend reinstating the Encoding line and testing all future
 desktop files with desktop-file-validate, part of desktop-file-utils.

Isn't it deprecated?
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/1.0/apc.html

Best regards,
Nelson


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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-08 Thread Michael Levin
I modified the source a bit to make it compile in Etch and built with
cowbuilder for this upload (1.0.2-1).

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 22:43 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
 # Add here any variable or target overrides you need.
 
 As a suggestion, remove this line.

Done.

 It's not necessary to install README (this info is already on the
 package description and on the manpage).
 AUTHORS is also included on debian/copyright, so I don't see a need to
 install it too.

It's a GNU standard to have it, so why not? I've actually just added
some information to the README which isn't mentioned anywhere else.

 I strongly recommend to you create a debian/menu file.

Done.

 All the files inside your tarball have the execution bit set. It's not
 need to have all the files executable (just a suggestion for your next
 release).

An unfortunate side-effect of compiling on a FAT partition (I dual
boot). I've recompiled on an EXT3 and hopefully set all the permissions
correctly this time.

 And I have tested cellwriter and it's not working :-(
 While training its input, the letters don't get darker with training.
 Any ideas why it's happening?

It would be unusual for there to be a bug there. The letters get darker
gradually, it's not very noticeable. When you draw a letter, you must
move the mouse out of the box so that the ink disappears.

If you train the program this way, click Finish, write something and
your input isn't recognized, it still doesn't mean that the training is
broken. If you draw an input character that is very different from the
training samples, CellWriter will reject it. Most often this happens
when someone trains a character by drawing it twice without moving the
pointer out of the box (so the program expects you to draw that
character twice this way every time!) or if you put a dot where there
shouldn't be one on accident.

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi!

On 9/8/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  It's not necessary to install README (this info is already on the
  package description and on the manpage).
  AUTHORS is also included on debian/copyright, so I don't see a need to
  install it too.

 It's a GNU standard to have it, so why not? I've actually just added
 some information to the README which isn't mentioned anywhere else.

There is no problem in installing README and AUTHORS. It's just not
necessary to install a README that contains instructions to compile
and install the program (since the user will get a package ready to
use, without needing to compile, install, etc), right?
The same thing with AUTHORS. The content of this file is already
included on debian/copyright. You will just get duplicated data if you
install it.

  I strongly recommend to you create a debian/menu file.

 Done.

Section of your menu file should be Applications/Accessibility

And it's not necessary to have Encoding=UTF-8 in cellwriter.desktop.

  And I have tested cellwriter and it's not working :-(
  While training its input, the letters don't get darker with training.
  Any ideas why it's happening?

 It would be unusual for there to be a bug there. The letters get darker
 gradually, it's not very noticeable. When you draw a letter, you must
 move the mouse out of the box so that the ink disappears.

Hum... I see no ink when I draw anything on the boxes :-/
Does it need something from Gnome to work properly? (I am using Window Maker).
I have tried compiling it with --disable-gnome, but nothing seems to change.

Best regards,
Nelson


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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-08 Thread Michael Levin
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 20:12 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
 There is no problem in installing README and AUTHORS. It's just not
 necessary to install a README that contains instructions to compile
 and install the program (since the user will get a package ready to
 use, without needing to compile, install, etc), right?

I agree but this is default behavior for Automake and I haven't found a
way to turn it off.

 Section of your menu file should be Applications/Accessibility

Done.

I should point out that I was using what appears to be an outdated (year
old?) policy manual that needs updating:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/ch2.html

 And it's not necessary to have Encoding=UTF-8 in cellwriter.desktop.

Done.

 Hum... I see no ink when I draw anything on the boxes :-/
 Does it need something from Gnome to work properly? (I am using Window Maker).
 I have tried compiling it with --disable-gnome, but nothing seems to change.

I can think of two possible issues:

1) XInput is not supported?
2) Your Window Manager won't give motion/button events to a window that
   refuses focus

GTK allows the creation of GtkWindows that do not grab focus. For
CellWriter, this is critical because it needs to generate keystrokes to
send out to a different window you have in focus. Possibly your window
manager doesn't give CellWriter the events it needs to function.

CellWriter works on Metacity and XFWM. I will download a few different
window managers and see if others have issues.

I'll look for a workaround but in the meantime, I don't think this issue
should prevent the upload of the package. CellWriter is positioned as a
kind of GNOME utility anyway, you use a custom WM at your own risk. :|

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-08 Thread Michael Levin
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 20:12 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
 Hum... I see no ink when I draw anything on the boxes :-/
 Does it need something from Gnome to work properly? (I am using Window Maker).
 I have tried compiling it with --disable-gnome, but nothing seems to change.

Hmm. I seem to have placed the blame on Window Maker too early. I just
ran it and CellWriter worked fine. Can you give me any more hints to go
on?

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-08 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Michael!

Your package looks good. There are only 3 small things that you may
want to do (or you can do them on a latter version of your package).

On 9/8/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 20:12 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
  There is no problem in installing README and AUTHORS. It's just not
  necessary to install a README that contains instructions to compile
  and install the program (since the user will get a package ready to
  use, without needing to compile, install, etc), right?

 I agree but this is default behavior for Automake and I haven't found a
 way to turn it off.

You don't need to remove them from your source package. You can just
not install them.
With CDBS you need to use this in debian/rules, after the includes:

DEB_INSTALL_DOCS_ALL := TODO

Then CDBS will only install the TODO file (leaving README and AUTHORS
without being installed, for example).

 I should point out that I was using what appears to be an outdated (year
 old?) policy manual that needs updating:
 http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/ch2.html

The latest version of lintian will catch this old menu format.
You can also read /usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz, from menu package
version 2.1.35

  And it's not necessary to have Encoding=UTF-8 in cellwriter.desktop.

 Done.

It's not wrong to modify a file directly (like you did with
cellwriter.desktop), but it's good to keep all your changes inside the
debian/ dir. If you need to modify a file, you can patch it (using
dpatch, quilt, simple-patch-system, or something else that you like).

And the last thing is change command=cellwriter to
command=/usr/bin/cellwriter in your debian/menu file.

If you want to fix debian/rules to install only the necessary docs,
use a patch system (for cellwriter.desktop) and change the menu file,
then perfect. Otherwise I can upload the package if you don't want to
change them now (as I said before, your package isn't wrong if you
don't change this).

(I will reply the other email only to you as debian-mentors isn't the
place to we talk about this, OK?)

Best regards,
Nelson


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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

 Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (06/09/2007):
   You know, that bugs can be merged?
  
  I got an email from BTS saying the two reports were merged by someone
  already. However, they both still show up in the bugs list and I'm not
  sure which bug number they were merged into so I'm leaving the
  ChangeLog as is.
 
 They are merged, fullstop. No “master” bug or “duplicates”, just close
 both in the changelog and you're done.

You don't even need to close both. Just close whichever one you feel
like closing and the other will be closed as well.


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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-07 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Michael!

On 9/7/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Also, your debian/copyright is basically empty and (maybe) you need to
  review debian/rules.

 Fixed the copyright. The rules file works fine as far as I can tell.

I know that it's working, but I only asked because of this line on debian/rules:

# Add here any variable or target overrides you need.

As a suggestion, remove this line.

It's not necessary to install README (this info is already on the
package description and on the manpage).
AUTHORS is also included on debian/copyright, so I don't see a need to
install it too.

I strongly recommend to you create a debian/menu file.

All the files inside your tarball have the execution bit set. It's not
need to have all the files executable (just a suggestion for your next
release).

And I have tested cellwriter and it's not working :-(
While training its input, the letters don't get darker with training.
Any ideas why it's happening?

Best regards,
Nelson


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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Levin
Thanks for taking a look at my package.

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 13:03 +1000, Paul Wise wrote:
 Firstly, please make a non-native package (diff.gz and orig.tar.gz
 instead of just a tar.gz).

Done.

 Please file an intent to package bug and close it in the changelog:
 http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l1

Accidentally filed two (#441087, #441088) but the changelog closes both
of them.

 Looks like you forgot to build-depend on x11proto-xext-dev.

I was missing a dependency on libxtst-dev, it should build now.

 As upstream, you should fix these gcc warnings:

Done.

I've reuploaded the package with these changes.

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-06 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Michael Levin wrote:
 Accidentally filed two (#441087, #441088) but the changelog closes both
 of them.

You know, that bugs can be merged?

Regards,

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-06 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Michael!

On 9/6/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I've reuploaded the package with these changes.

You are using a different source code than the original one (md5sum of them):

abfc4789241a09b14a99f27f7d5c5566  cellwriter-1.0.0.tar.gz
d1dad3e165314efe605469e015548820  cellwriter_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz

You just need to get your cellwriter-1.0.0.tar.gz and rename it as
cellwriter_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz
Generally nothing else is needed.

Also, your debian/copyright is basically empty and (maybe) you need to
review debian/rules.

Best regards,
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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (06/09/2007):
  You know, that bugs can be merged?
 
 I got an email from BTS saying the two reports were merged by someone
 already. However, they both still show up in the bugs list and I'm not
 sure which bug number they were merged into so I'm leaving the
 ChangeLog as is.

They are merged, fullstop. No “master” bug or “duplicates”, just close
both in the changelog and you're done. The order matters when one uses
the “forcemerge” command, though.

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Levin
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:29 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
 Michael Levin wrote:
  Accidentally filed two (#441087, #441088) but the changelog closes
 both
  of them.
 
 You know, that bugs can be merged?

I got an email from BTS saying the two reports were merged by someone
already. However, they both still show up in the bugs list and I'm not
sure which bug number they were merged into so I'm leaving the ChangeLog
as is.

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 15:56 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
 You are using a different source code than the original one (md5sum of them):
 
 abfc4789241a09b14a99f27f7d5c5566  cellwriter-1.0.0.tar.gz
 d1dad3e165314efe605469e015548820  cellwriter_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz

Uploaded the updated source as 1.0.1 so now the original source and the
tarball on the website match up.

 Also, your debian/copyright is basically empty and (maybe) you need to
 review debian/rules.

Fixed the copyright. The rules file works fine as far as I can tell.

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Levin
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:47 -0500, Michael Levin wrote:
 Dear mentors,
 
 I am looking for a sponsor for my package cellwriter.
 
 * Package name: cellwriter
   Version : 1.0.0
   Upstream Author : me
 * URL : http://risujin.org
 * License : GPL
   Section : gnome
 
 It builds these binary packages:
 cellwriter - grid-entry handwriting input panel
 
 The package appears to be lintian clean.
 
 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
 - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cellwriter
 - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
 contrib non-free
 - dget 
 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cellwriter/cellwriter_1.0.0.dsc
 
 I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Sorry about bumping this but since there hasn't been any reply for two
weeks I wanted to ask for a sponsor again.

Debian currently has no handwriting recognition software in it's
repositories. CellWriter would be the first such program and would help
Tablet PC users to run Debian.

Some kind Ubuntu users can attest to the quality of the program:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=489808page=2

Could someone upload my package please?

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-09-05 Thread Paul Wise
On 9/6/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cellwriter/cellwriter_1.0.0.dsc
 Could someone upload my package please?

Firstly, please make a non-native package (diff.gz and orig.tar.gz
instead of just a tar.gz).

Please file an intent to package bug and close it in the changelog:

http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l1

Your package fails to build in a clean chroot (I tried in cowbuilder):

cc -DDATADIR=\/usr/share\ -DPKGDATADIR=\/usr/share/cellwriter\ -g
-Wall -O2   -o cellwriter main.o window.o unix.o cellwidget.o
recognize.o stroke.o options.o averages.o wordfreq.o preprocess.o
-lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm
-lpangocairo-1.0 -lfontconfig -lXext -lXrender -lXinerama -lXi
-lXrandr -lXcursor -lXfixes -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lX11 -lgobject-2.0
-lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0   -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread
-lgnome-2 -lpopt -lbonobo-2 -lbonobo-activation -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl
-lORBit-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0   -lm
unix.o: In function `key_event_send_bksp':
/tmp/buildd/cellwriter-1.0.0/src/unix.c:250: undefined reference to
`XTestFakeKeyEvent'
unix.o: In function `type_key':
/tmp/buildd/cellwriter-1.0.0/src/unix.c:59: undefined reference to
`XTestFakeKeyEvent'
/tmp/buildd/cellwriter-1.0.0/src/unix.c:60: undefined reference to
`XTestFakeKeyEvent'
unix.o: In function `key_event_send':
/tmp/buildd/cellwriter-1.0.0/src/unix.c:206: undefined reference to
`XTestFakeKeyEvent'
/tmp/buildd/cellwriter-1.0.0/src/unix.c:209: undefined reference to
`XTestFakeKeyEvent'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [cellwriter] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/cellwriter-1.0.0'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/cellwriter-1.0.0'
make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2
pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package

Looks like you forgot to build-depend on x11proto-xext-dev. Please
check your package builds in a clean chroot before asking for a
sponsor (use sbuild/pbuilder/cowbuilder/qemubuilder or for that).

As upstream, you should fix these gcc warnings:

src/cellwidget.c: In function 'pack_cells':
src/cellwidget.c:544: warning: 'break_j' may be used uninitialized in
this function
src/cellwidget.c:544: note: 'break_j' was declared here

src/preprocess.c: In function 'greedy_map':
src/preprocess.c:84: warning: 'best_j' may be used uninitialized in
this function
src/preprocess.c:84: warning: 'last_j' may be used uninitialized in
this function
src/preprocess.c:82: warning: 'penalty' may be used uninitialized in
this function
src/preprocess.c:82: warning: 'best_value' may be used uninitialized
in this function
src/preprocess.c:82: warning: 'best_reach' may be used uninitialized
in this function

Thankyou for creating this software and for packaging it for Debian.

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RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Levin
Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package cellwriter.

* Package name: cellwriter
  Version : 1.0.0
  Upstream Author : me
* URL : http://risujin.org
* License : GPL
  Section : gnome

It builds these binary packages:
cellwriter - grid-entry handwriting input panel

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cellwriter
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cellwriter/cellwriter_1.0.0.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Jonny Lamb
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:47 -0500, Michael Levin wrote:
 I am looking for a sponsor for my package cellwriter.

Just some /really/ small points:

 * debian/copyright doesn't contain where you downloaded the tarball
   from.
 * debian/dirs is no longer needed.
 * debian/control has a format for homepage URLs, which is *two* spaces
   then Homepage: http://www.example.com/;
 * debian/docs isn't strictly necessary as the filenames specified will
   get installed by default, but I'm just being picky here!

Other than that the _packaging_ looks alright.

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Levin
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:38 +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote:
  * debian/copyright doesn't contain where you downloaded the tarball
from.

Because I didn't download it from anywhere. :)

I don't want to break the mold though, I'll add that part back in.

  * debian/control has a format for homepage URLs, which is *two* spaces
then Homepage: http://www.example.com/;

I can't find mention of this in either the Policy or the New
Maintainer's guide, how is that supposed to look? Does that go in the
description or is that one of the control lines (if so, why two spaces
in front of it..?)

 Other than that the _packaging_ looks alright.

Thanks for taking a look.

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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Nice to see how I sent the wrong email :-(

Hi!

On 8/21/07, Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:38 +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote:
   * debian/control has a format for homepage URLs, which is *two* spaces
 then Homepage: http://www.example.com/;

 I can't find mention of this in either the Policy or the New
 Maintainer's guide, how is that supposed to look? Does that go in the
 description or is that one of the control lines (if so, why two spaces
 in front of it..?)

The homepage *recommendation* is available here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-upstream-info

It isn't mandatory to use two spaces followed by Homepage: http://somesite

I have the impression that when we say You need to use this on your
package, people (mainly new people) think that this is the correct
thing to do (while there isn't (yet) a consensus about the homepage
field).

People looking at this will think that it's needed to use this format,
while in fact it isn't. It's just a recommendation. There is nothing
saying Use like this because all other formats are wrong.

There is a recent discussion about this topic here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/08/msg00805.html

In short: it's not wrong to use Homepage with one space, or use URL or whatever.

Best regards,
Nelson


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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:12:46AM +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote:
 On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:37 -0500, Michael Levin wrote:
  On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:38 +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote:
* debian/control has a format for homepage URLs, which is *two* spaces
  then Homepage: http://www.example.com/;
  
  I can't find mention of this in either the Policy or the New
  Maintainer's guide, how is that supposed to look? Does that go in the
  description or is that one of the control lines (if so, why two spaces
  in front of it..?)
 
 Mm, I've tried to find the mailing list post *I* first read it in lots
 of times, but have always failed. It's not policy, but I think most do
Well it may have been me (perhaps earlier than these).
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/12/msg00059.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/12/msg00084.html

Justin


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Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Levin
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 00:12 +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote:
 Package: cellwriter
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: grid-entry handwriting input panel
  CellWriter is a grid-entry natural handwriting input panel.
  As you write characters into the cells, your writing is instantly
  recognized at the character level. When you press 'Enter' on the panel,
  the input you entered is sent to the currently focused application as
  if typed on the keyboard.
  .
* Writer-dependent, learns your handwriting for reliable recognition
* Correcting preprocessor algorithms account for digitizer noise,
  differing stroke order, direction, and number of strokes
* Unicode support enables you to write in your native language
  .
   Homepage: http://risujin.org/cellwriter

Okay, I've made the changes and reuploaded the package. I suppose it's
still an open question whether the _program_ itself is following Debian
guidelines.

Is my package ready for a sponsor?

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