[Pkg-crosswire-devel] [RFS] sword-1.6.1+dfsg-1

[Jonathan Marsden]

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

>>>> W: sword source: debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version line 2

>>> Thanks for doing these uploads Roberto. I appreciate it so the next
>>> comment is meant to be constructive criticism as I didn't get to doing
>>> it myself. But it would be helpful if you could fix these bugs in the
>>> package you upload and supply a patch to the list, or apply it to the
>>> repo yourself.

I can look at this, it shouldn't be this hard to get a watch file
straight.  We add the +dfsg in the package name, so we just need to
mangle it back out again in the watch file.

Thanks to Dmitry for doing this work in the first place; I saw the msg
asking if I had time... as you can see, I didn't!  I've been busy at
work and sick with bronchitis, not a good combination.  Bronchitis is
now "almost" gone, I hope and pray it goes completely and stays away!

> Did you also the override disparity email?  That probably ought to be
> corrected as well.  However, you need to decide whether you want to file
> a bug asking for the override file to be changed, or whether you want to
> change the package's control file to match the override.

My two cents and a little history: the diatheke package we inherited was
web, because it installed the diatheke.cgi.  We stopped installing that,
except as an example, I think because it had security issues.  So the
current package is now text, and the section override should (as I
understand it) therefore be changed to text.  I have a feeling I asked
about that, back when we first did it, and someone suggested it would be
sorted out by the archive admins??  Seems like that's not quite the
case, and we now need to be proactive about sorting this out.

General principle: If anyone gets a package to the point where it works
but has lintian warnings they know about, IMO it's probably best to post
to this list saying "how do I get rid of these N warnings?" rather than
doing an RFS with known warnings left in it.  I'm not perfect in this
regard myself (sometimes I get things lintian-clean in Ubuntu but not
Debian sid, for instance)... let's all try to improve on this, and not
ask sponsors to sponsor things that are "unclean" unless there is a real
time crunch.

Jonathan