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.
\r
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