Help offered with xwax package

Jaromír Mikeš mira.mikes at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 18:20:42 UTC 2016


2016-08-15 20:16 GMT+02:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
> 2016-08-15 13:58 GMT+02:00 Daniel James <daniel at 64studio.com>:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
>>> Or maybe the best ... asking upstream if he could name his releases
>>> with ~ as - breaking our automatic system for watching new releases.
>>
>> I talked to the upstream author, he had not intended beta releases to be
>> packaged by downstream distros.
>>
>> Anyway, the patch from Debian has been merged upstream and a 1.6 final
>> release was made. I have imported these sources and removed the patch.
>>
>> Please could someone from the pkg-multimedia team review the package for
>> release?
>>
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/xwax.git/
>>
>> I have built it locally on jessie amd64 in a pbuilder-dist chroot and it
>> seems fine.
>
> $ lintian -IE --pedantic /home/mira/PACKAGING/xwax_1.6-1_amd64.changes
> W: xwax source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.6 (current is 3.9.8)
> P: xwax source: debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature
> I: xwax: hardening-no-pie usr/bin/xwax
> I: xwax: hardening-no-bindnow usr/bin/xwax
>
> 1. Bump of standards version
> 2. Fix of hardening
> 3. Use cgit for  Vcs-Browser would be probably better.

4. Is d/dir file needed ?
5. Is parallel build now default or should be enabled?
    If it is not default I would enable it.

mira



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