Re: Orphaned packages

[Jaromír Mikeš]

> Od: Alessio Treglia <quadrispro at ubuntu.com>
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> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at seznam.cz> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Alessio - snd
> 
> Done, uploaded to the git repository [1, the package is also available here
> [2].
> 
> That's the changelog entry:
> 
> snd (10.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * New maintainer (Closes: #547072).
>   * New upstream release.
>   * debian/{rules,control,compat}:
>     - Switch to debhelper 7:
>       + Bump build-dependency to >= 7.0.50 cause of the use of override
>         statements.
>       + Remove unnecessary files: snd-7.18.tar.gz.cdbs-config_list,
>         debian/rules.precdbs
>   * Drop all dependencies on snd-dmotif* packages, remove all the dmotif
>     related files under debian directory; also remove debian/snd-gtk-alsa.*.
>   * debian/control:
>     - Bump Standards.
>       + Add ${misc:Depends} to runtimes Depends field.
>     - Move upstream's URL to the source stanza's Homepage field.
>     - Update Build-Depends:
>       + Remove cdbs.
>       + guile-1.6-dev -> guile-1.8-dev
>       + xutils -> xutils-dev
>     - Remove circular dependency between snd and snd-gtk runtimes.
>     - Set Debian Multimedia Maintainers as Maintainer, add myself to the
>       Uploaders field.
>     - Add Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser fields.
>   * debian/{rules,control,README.source}: Add quilt support.
>   * Update debian/copyright.
>   * debian/patches/:
>     - Replace 00_makefile.patch with 00-makefile.diff to prevent FTBFS.
>     - Replace 01_german.patch with 01-german.diff, refreshed and converted to
>       the quilt format.
>     - 03-manpage_warnings.diff: Fix manpage's warnings, make lintian happy.
>   * debian/snd-doc.doc-base.{tutorial,manual}: Change section to Sound.
>   * debian/snd-gtk.menu (formerly debian/snd.menu):
>     - Set section to Applications/Sound (as per Debian Menu System's manual,
>       http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html#s3.5).
>     - /usr/bin/snd is provided by the snd-gtk runtime.
>   * Update debian/*.{install,manpages} files.
>   * debian/snd.docs: Don't install HISTORY.Snd, TODO.Snd.
>   * Update debian/watch.
> 
>  -- Alessio Treglia <quadrispro at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:53:29 +0200
> 
> 
> It's not lintian clean, these are 2 warnings, one about a spelling
> error, another one about the non-executability of a script, that can
> be ignored.
> 
> I tested the package by installing and running it in two chroot
> environments, Debian sid and Ubuntu karmic, both for amd64
> architecture: it seems working good.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/snd.git;a=summary
> [2] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/snd/

Hi,

That's great. Just small note ...
Maybe you should announce it with subject "RFS: snd" instead of "Re: Orphaned packages" ;)  
It easer for DD notice that your package is ready and it seems to be ready.

regards 

mira