Bug#500130: gnome-panel: upgrade to standards version 3.8.0

Thu Sep 25 11:08:44 UTC 2008

Package: gnome-panel
Version: 2.20.3-5
Severity: minor

Hello, I'm new to Debian and packaging. Anyway I'm trying to contribute the
switch to the new debian policy version 3.8.0 as per the
upgrading-checklist.txt.

* The base section has been removed.  contrib and non-free have been
  removed from the section list; they are only categories.  The base
  system is now defined by priority.

[OK] gnome-panel has not base section

* If dpkg-source -x doesn't provide the source that will be compiled,
  a debian/rules patch target is recommended and should do whatever
  else is necessary.
* If dpkg-source -x doesn't produce source ready for editing and     
  building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a
  debian/README.source file explaining how to generate the patched
  source, add a new modification, and remove an existing
  modification.  This file may also be used to document packaging a
  new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build
  process.  

[OK] dpkg-source -x gnome-panel*.dsc provides the source that will be
compiled 
and the compilation is successful.

* Standardized the format of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.  Specified permitted
  characters for tags, required that tags be whitespace-separated,
  allowed packages to assume non-conflicting tags, and required
  unknown flags be ignored. 
* Added parallel=n to the standardized DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS tags,
  indicating that a package should be built using up to n parallel
  processes if the package supports it

[??] No DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS neither in debian/rules nor in
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-t

* Debian packages should not use convience copies of code from other
  packages unless the included package is explicitly intended to be  
  used that way.

[OK] gnome-panel doesn't seem to contain any third-party software included
in its distribution tarball.

* The Uploaders field in debian/control may be wrapped.

[OK] The Uploaders field is all in a row without line breaks that could span   
multiple lines.

* An empty Debian revision is equivalent to a Debian revision of 0 in
  a version number.

[OK] Current package has debian revision 6.

* New Homepage field for upstream web sites.

[OK] Other gnome packages have no upstream Homepage field.

* The Breaks field declares that this package breaks another and     
  prevents installation of the breaking package unless the package
  named in Breaks is deconfigured first.  This field should not be
  used until the dpkg in Debian stable supports it.

[OK] No package in Breaks field.

* Clarify which files should go into a shared library package, into a
  separate package, or into the -dev package.  Suggest -tools instead
  of -runtime for runtime support programs, since that naming is more
  common in Debian.

[OK] gnome-panel seems to have no runtime support programs.

* Files in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} must be
  configuration files (upgraded from should).  Mention the hourly
  directory.

[OK] gnome-panel seems to have no cron files.

* Packages providing /etc/X11/Xresources files need not conflict with
  xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), which is long-obsolete.

[OK] gnome-panel doesn't seem to provide such files.

* Manual pages in locale-specific directories should use either the
  legacy encoding for that directory or UTF-8.  Country names should
  not be included in locale-specific manual page directories unless
  indicating a significant difference in the language.  All
  characters in the manual page source should be representable in the
  legacy encoding for a locale even if the man page is encoded in
  UTF-8.

[OK] gnome-panel.1 is encoded in UTF-8

* The Apache 2.0 license is now in common-licenses and should be
  referenced rather than quoted in debian/copyright.

[OK] gnome-panel doesn't seem to use the Apache 2.0 license.

* Packages in contrib and non-free should state in the copyright file
  that the package is not part of Debian GNU/Linux and briefly
  explain why.

[OK] gnome-panel is part of the main category.

* Underscore (_) is allowed in debconf template names.

[OK] gnome-panel has no debconf templates.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-panel depends on:
ii  gnome-about                2.22.3-1      The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.22.2.1-2  utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-desktop-data         2.22.3-1      Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-menus                2.22.2-4      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  gnome-panel-data           2.20.3-5      common files for the GNOME Panel
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.22.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.22.0-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.7-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-6       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.76-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libecal1.2-7               2.22.3-1      Client library for evolution calen
ii  libedataserver1.2-9        2.22.3-1      Utility library for evolution data
ii  libedataserverui1.2-8      2.22.3-1      GUI utility library for evolution 
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.5-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.22.3-1      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2             2.22.2-4      an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-1    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.22.0-4    GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.11-3     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0         2.20.3-5      library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.5-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck22                  2.22.3-1      Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.4-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                    1:1.0.3-3     X11 authorisation library
ii  menu-xdg                   0.3           freedesktop.org menu compliant win

Versions of packages gnome-panel recommends:
ii  alacarte                      0.11.5-1   easy GNOME menu editing tool
pn  evolution-data-server         <none>     (no description available)
ii  gnome-applets                 2.22.3-3   Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.22.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                 2.22.3-1   The GNOME 2 Session Manager

Versions of packages gnome-panel suggests:
ii  gnome-system-tools            2.22.0-2   Cross-platform configuration utili
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-em 2.22.3-2   The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  gnome-user-guide [gnome2-user 2.22.1-1   GNOME user's guide
ii  nautilus                      2.20.0-6   file manager and graphical shell f
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]   235-1      X terminal emulator
ii  yelp                          2.22.1-8   Help browser for GNOME 2

-- no debconf information