upload rumor

Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 13:49:07 UTC 2009


Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> El miércoles 27 de mayo, Grammostola Rosea escribió:
>>  
>>> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>    
>>>>  - no pristine-tar branch, please use pristine-tar to integrate your
>>>>    orig.tar.gz to the repository.
>>>>       
>>> pristine-tar branch?
>>>     
>>
>> Look for the pristine-tar utility, and read its documentation. When 
>> importing new upstreams, you can pass a flag to git-import-orig to do 
>> it for you, but since you already imported it, you will have to 
>> fiddle manually with pristine-
>> tar.
>>
>>  
>>>>  - debian/copyright claims the package to be GPL2+ licensed , but
>>>>    src/rumor.cc is clearly GPL2 (and no later version). The archive
>>>>    administrators will definitly not accept such a copyright file.
>>>>       
>>> Afaik it only says GPL2...
>>>     
>>
>> Some files say "GPL version 2 or any later version" while others say 
>> "GPL version 2 only". You have to note that in the copyright file.
>>
>>
>>  
>>>>  - debian/control: please use multiline fields for (Build-)Depends and
>>>>    Suggests. Also wordwrap the long description.
>>>>       
>>> what do you mean by multiline fields and wordwrap?
>>>     
>>
>> You can put each dependency on its own line, provided you start each 
>> line with whitespace. See the jack control file for comparison.
>> Wordwrap means that no line should be longer than a certain limit. 
>> This limit is usually 80.
>>
>>
>>   
> I did the wordwrap thing, but the control hasn't changed. I think it's 
> pretty common on the Debian-mentor list to do it the way I have it. 
> Besides that I got lintian  warnings when I do it the way you suggested.
>
Reinhard,

Could you upload rumor?

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