[pkg] brutespray - review

Stéphane Neveu stefneveu at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 07:03:17 UTC 2017


Hi Lukas,

2017-07-21 20:46 GMT+02:00 Lukas Schwaighofer <lukas at schwaighofer.name>:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:50:01 +0200
> Stéphane Neveu <stefneveu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All done... tell me if it looks better to you now. I still need to
>> enhance the manpage !
>
> Looks good, two more things:
> * debian/control: Priority standard is too high (that's basically a
>   statement, that you expect this package to be installed on a "normal"
>   installation). It should probably be either optional or extra (I do
>   lean towards extra).  Check the Debian Policy [1] for an explanation.
> * You should add
>       Forwarded: not-needed
>   to the DEP-3 header of wordlist.patch to make it clear that this is
>   not an upstream bug but a Debian specific change we needed to make.
>
>
> Suggestions for the man page:
> * only put the program invocation "template" into the SYNOPSIS section,
>   then start the DESCRIPTION section
> * Put what you have in your "header" line into the DESCRIPTION section,
>   instead make the "header" line shorter
>   DESCRIPTION
>   section
>   - the "long" description from the header should be put there
>   - write something even shorter and more concise as header
> * for formatting the options, see ronn-format(7), section DEFINITIONS
>   LIST
> * include an nmap command in your EXAMPLES section that generates a
>   suitable output for brutespray
> * in SEE ALSO should probably also put nmap(1)
>
> See for example ls(1) for what I think the SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION
> sections could look like.
>

Thank you, it's updated. Tell me if it looks better now :)


> PS: I just noticed that we also uploaded curvedns with a priority
>     standard, that should also be corrected to optional or extra with a
>     subsequent upload.

Yes, I also need to update Vcs-* as I told you yesterday.

Best regards,
Stephane



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