[Pkg-samba-maint] Asking for review of ctdb package before asking for a sponsor

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2008 schrieb Mathieu PARENT:
> My ctdb package is almost finished. I need some help to validate
> against debian policy. This is my first package, so i may miss
> some essential step.

Some comments:

* README.Debian:  It is content-free and redundant; remove it.

* changelog:  Remove spaces before colons.

* changelog:  I would separate the date from the version number by some other 
means, such as 1.0.24+git200801221422-1.

* control:  It should be XS-Vcs-Svn and XS-Vcs-Browser.

* control:  Put a slash at the end of XS-Vcs-Svn.

* control:  There is a long list of Suggests, but it is not clear in what 
contexts those packages would be useful.

* control:  The description could use a few more sentences.

* control:  If it depends on ethtool, it must be Priority extra.

* control:  I don't think this package actually depends on logrotate.  That 
would be unusual.

* docs:  You don't need to install README.build, as it is not useful for users 
of the package.

* postinst, postrm, preinst, prerm:  Remove these, since they don't do 
anything.

* rules:  Clean up this file.  Remove all the comments "Add here ...", all the 
example commands that are commented out, all the targets you don't need.  The 
get-orig-source-bzr target is unclear to me, as ctdb uses git.

> My get-orig-source target-git (in debian/rules) should call build-orig.sh
> from the debian directory. How to do this ?

Call sh debian/build-orig.sh I guess.

> Should I use soname or something similar ?

I don't see a library in your package.