[pkg-fso-maint] small intone update & request for sponsoring (was Re: [Debian] intone and neon now in pkg-fso repository)

Sebastian Reichel elektranox at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 20:47:31 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:26:06PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 06:36:26PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > > 2009/9/14 Sebastian Reichel <elektranox at gmail.com>:
> > > > It would be nice if somebody would sponsor intone package for me,
> > > > since I'm still no DD ;)
> > >
> > > What's current status of this?
> > > If not resolve yet, I may try to help :)
> >
> > nope, it's not resolved yet. It seems you are the only active DD in
> > pkg-fso at the moment. You can find the package at [1].
> >
> > [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-fso/intone.git;a=summary
> 
> I've looked into the package. It builds ok, is lintia-clean, and generally 
> looks good.

:)

> I'd however like to ask you to comment on the following items.
> 
> *) Most packages hosted in pkg-fso repos have Maintainer: set to 
> Debian FreeSmartphone.Org Team <pkg-fso-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>,
> and individuals listed in Uploaders:
> Why not do the same for intone?

This was just what dh_make initially put in there.

> *) Package description and README.Debian both mention that intone interacts 
> with FSO. Maybe add fso-frameworkd to some of dependency fields (likely 
> Suggests:) then?

Ah I totally forgot about this. I'll check if intone works without
fso-frameworkd and put it into Depends if not. If it works I will
put it into Suggests ;)

> *) Similar to other pkg-fso packages, /usr/share/doc/intone/ does contain 
> files with no useful info (NEWS.gs and AUTHORS [into already in 
> copyright]). Maybe remove those?

There are probably so many packages, because CDBS includes those by
default.

> *) debian/README.source should be a human-readable description on how to 
> get patched source for the package [Policy sec 4.14]. In this package, 
> that file is a script; those should likely go to get-orig-source rule of 
> debian/rules [Policy 4.9] instead.

ah ok, I was told some time ago that it's ok like this. I think I
should read the Debian policy before university starts again :)

I think I will have packages changing all these things finished to
tomorrow.

-- Sebastian
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