[Pkg-parrot-devel] Parrot 3.3.0-1 package is in mentors

Allison Randal allison at parrot.org
Sun May 1 19:00:47 UTC 2011


On 04/30/2011 03:21 PM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
>
> Just a few comments on the packages:
>
> - No need to Build-Depends on quilt anymore. This fixes the
>    unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt lintian P tag.
>
> - It would be nice to have a Homepage field in debian/control, e.g.:
>
>      Homepage: http://parrot.org
>
>    This would fix the no-homepage-field lintian tag.
>
> - Lintian also warns about a couple of spelling errors (reenable ->
>    re-enable). I've attached a patch that fixes them (drop it under
>    debian/patches). I would also suggest to merge it upstream (I can do a
>    pull request via GitHub if needed).
>
> - I've attached a *.symbols file for the libparrot3.3.0 package. It was
>    generated using dpkg-gensymbols(1). Have a look at [0] for an explanation
>    of what a symbols file is. Basically it helps dpkg-shlibdeps to
>    generate more accurate dependencies on libraries given the symbols that
>    they export. This would fix the no-symbols-control-file lintian tag.

Thanks! I've integrated these changes, and updated the packages at:

http://pub.lohutok.net/parrot/

I've handed these off to Colin for uploading.

Allison



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