looking for a debian sponsor for openser

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello Mikael,

On 03/10/06 11:44, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we have generated fresh packages for sid and uploaded the dsc file as 
>> well. There is no diff for packaging debian, the development platform 
>> is debian unstable.
>>
>> Everything is at:
>> http://openser.org/pub/openser/latest/packages/deb-sid/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Openser and I think it's great if it will be included in 
> Debian. I downloaded the new source package (openser_1.0.1-0.dsc), and 
> tested it with lintian which outputs a lot of warnings.
>
> For example native packages should not include a dash in the version.
> But I don't think openser should be a Debian native package since you 
> also distribute a source tar-ball (openser-1.0.1-tls_src.tar.gz). The 
> Debian package should instead use this tar-ball as orig source. It 
> will also fix the problem with cvs directories and cvs conflict copies 
> in the source since
> openser-1.0.1-tls_src.tar.gz doesn't contain those.
we will try to get rid of some warnings. The one with dash will be taken 
in consideration for further releases. By mistake the cvs conflict 
copies were included, it was fixed, using a fresh checkout to build the 
packages.

Thanks for your quick feedback,
Daniel

>
> /Mikael
>
> lintian output:
>
> dpkg-source: warning: extracting unsigned source package (./dsc)
> W: openser source: maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token 
> debian/openser.postinst
> W: openser source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/cron.d.ex
> W: openser source: maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token 
> debian/openser-tls.postinst
> W: openser source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/ex.package.doc-base
> W: openser source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/watch.ex
> W: openser source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/prerm.ex
> W: openser source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/preinst.ex
> W: openser source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/manpage.1.ex
> W: openser source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/manpage.sgml.ex
> W: openser source: not-using-po-debconf
> W: openser source: ancient-standards-version 3.5.2
> W: openser source: native-package-with-dash-version
> W: openser source: source-contains-cvs-conflict-copy .#Makefile.1.9
> W: openser source: source-contains-cvs-conflict-copy .#items.c.1.15
> W: openser source: source-contains-CVS-dir db/CVS
> ...
>