Am Donnerstag, den 19.09.2013, 16:08 -0400 schrieb Jon Daley: > Yes, I saw the debian-lintian errors. And I can take a look at those - I > wanted to see if I had the packaging procedure down correctly before > attacking those. (and those issues have been around for years, so I > wasn't making anything worse by not touching them yet)
Well, a lintian-clean package attracts more sponsors :) And as a maintainer you have not too much be afraid to make you package worse but brave to improve it to the state of the art. > > And I did see that the upstream link to the tar file was broken - his main > site still links to it, so I figure he must have just broken it. If he > decides to stop publishing it - is there a process for that? The code is > in the public domain. > Mmmh, if upstream is gone this is a hint to think about if the lifecylcle of the package comes also to a end. Popcon says around 500 installs, (with a big jump going up early this year); so IMHO the package is still useful for quite many users. > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Tobias Frost wrote: > > > Hallo Jon, > > > > (Disclaimer: I'm not a DD/DM; also I'm quite new in reviewing, so I > > might also overlook smth or be wrong) > > > > Some notes while I looked at your package: > > * d/patches/* please add dep3 headers. > > * Can you upgrade standards-version to 3.9.4? > > * Please enable hardening (maybe along with setting d/compat to 9) > > * Add yourself to debian/copyright. Maybe update it to dep5 format? > > * orig source cannot be downloaded: I get a access denied error. Maybe > > get in contact with upstream? > > * d/rules I like debhelper short form better than the old one, might be > > worth to upgrade as I find it easier to maintain. > > > > Best regards, > > coldtobi > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to 723626-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org. > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
