upload rumor

Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Sat May 30 15:39:26 UTC 2009


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.

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