Bug#677517: minetest 0.4 unstable version

Matthew Bekkema mat8913ftw at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 10:54:32 UTC 2013


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:59:03PM -0800, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> A pedantic note: You may (or may not) want to be more verbose in
> debian/changelog. Generally, when doing a NMU upload it's safer to be
> on the more verbose side; you should at least be as verbose as the
> maintainer was in previous changelog entries.  e.g. adding a new
> binary package is IMHO significant enough to warrant its own changelog
> entry, and including a brief justification makes the ftpmasters' lives
> easier (source packages uploaded that also add new binary packages
> will end up taking a trip through the NEW queue). Also, modifying
> build-depends, package relationships in debian/control should be
> mentionned in the changelog. Anyways, this is more of a judgment call,
> but being more verbose in your changelog will make it easier for
> others to review your package.
I have updated the changelog to be more verbose. Is there anything
else I should mention in it?

> A not-so-pedantic note: debian/copyright is still incomplete. e.g.:
>  - src/shader.cpp: Copyright (C) 2012 Kahrl <kahrl at gmx.net>
>  - src/guiPasswordChange.cpp: Copyright (C) 2011 Ciaran Gultnieks
> <ciaran at ciarang.com>
>  - src/filecache.cpp: Copyright (C) 2012 Jonathan Neuschäfer
> <j.neuschaefer at gmx.net>
> 
> "licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 >
> debian/copyright_new" should list the above, and a few more missing
> copyright holders (compare with your current debian/copyright file).
> It's less hassle for everyone involved if you get it right on the
> first try, instead of ftpmasters rejecting your package due to an
> incomplete debian/copyright (I speak from experience).
Thanks for pointing that out. I noticed that upstream changed license
to LGPL-2 in commit 037b259. Anyway, I have updated the
debian/copyright file to reflect this change and to include the
missing copyright holders.

Also, I have updated debian/watch and get-orig-source in debian/rules
to point to github.com/minetest/minetest because upstream moved there.



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