Bug#800406: RFS sayonara/0.8.2

[Lucio Carreras]

Hi Ross,

Maybe you remember, I currently see no chance to go on preparing 
Sayonara player for the Debian repositories. I simply don't have enough 
time. The distribution mechanism for Debian is complicated and when I 
find time again after a few weeks I have to start from the very 
beginning again. It's very time consuming and I cannot imagine how to 
handle this in the future. I'll go on uploading the program to the ppa 
and offer the source code on my website. Maybe there will be someone in 
the future who wants to take care of this task.

I have a lot of respect for all of you how to manage this all beside 
your jobs.

Greetings,

Lucio


On 05/22/2016 10:03 AM, Ross Gammon wrote:
> Hi Lucio,
>
> On 05/13/2016 04:05 PM, Ross Gammon wrote:
>> Sorry - I was a bit busy this week. If Gianfranco says we are mostly
>> done, then it is probably time to join the pkg-multimedia team! Please
>> follow this page to join:
>> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Join
>>
>> Once I see saynora pushed to the alioth git repository, I will build,
>> install and have a play. If all looks good, it is probably time to
>> update the RFS bug to let Gianfranco know that we think it is ready for
>> sponsorship.
> Now we have sayonara inside the Debian Multimedia repository, I think
> there are only a few small things to tidy up:
>
> 1. Debian tag: Unfortunately when you import a .dsc, a Debian tag is
> created against the debian (master) branch. This tag should reflect the
> state of the repository when the package is uploaded. As sayonara has
> not been uploaded yet, we should delete this tag (no-one else will have
> pulled it yet, so no danger).
> $ git push --delete origin debian/0.9.0-1
> $ git tag -d debian/0.9.0-1
> According to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging,
> after upload the sponsor should tag the repository (sometimes it is
> forgotten, so keep an eye out for that).
>
> 2. Maintainer: Also according to
> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging, the
> maintainer should be the Team, and interested team members (e.g. you)
> should be "Uploader". Please update debian/control.
>
> 3. Package Short Description: This should start with "small" rather than
> "Small" and does not need the full stop at the end (debian/control).
> See:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-desc-basics
>
> 4. Package Long Description: This looks like a list "It holds a lot of
> features like .....". It would be better if each new line in the list
> started with "* ". Alternatively, it could be a standard paragraph with
> lots of commas (e.g. It holds a lot of features like many supported
> music and playlist formats, directory view, ....). I think I prefer the
> list.
>
> 5. Now that sayonara is in the Debian Multimedia Team repository, we
> need Vcs fields in debian/control:
> Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/sayonara.git
> Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/sayonara.git
> This way, people can follow links from the package tracker to inspect
> the repository, or find out how to clone it.
>
> The package is still building here, and I would like to install it and
> have a little play. Assuming nothing goes wrong with that, with the
> above changes I think it is ready to ask a sponsor to take a look at it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross
>