Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm sorry for your sponsor experience, please keep in mind however that > we are all volunteers and sometimes *additional* volunteer activities > (such as sponsoring packages) might fall into cracks.
Sure! :) I have myself been deep into the 2009 accounting for my companies for a week, and this is blocking my Debian work too, so I understand as well. > Now, on the > positive side, I volunteer to sponsor your package, but first a few > things should be figured out. Cool, thanks! > ... for once, I beg to disagree with this. I'm sure your package will > fix a lot of issues, but I'm skeptical about this one, due to the > following: > > z...@usha:/srv/debian/pbuilder/result$ dpkg -c > php-pear_5.2.12.dfsg.1-2_all.deb |grep doc > <snip> > lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2010-01-11 17:58 ./usr/share/php/doc -> > ../doc/php-pear/PEAR > z...@usha:/srv/debian/pbuilder/result$ dpkg -c php-net-ping_2.4.5-1_all.deb > |grep doc > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2010-02-08 15:38 ./usr/share/php/doc/ > > So (unless you do some magics in preinst which I haven't checked), the > bug is still there. I'm not sure if it is a bug which belongs to > php-net-ping or to php-pear, but it doesn't seem to be fixed by the > package you're requesting sponsorship for. It's an issue in php-net-ping that I have just fixed it. > Also, there is a serious lintian error reported on your package: > > z...@usha:/srv/debian/pbuilder/result$ lintian > php-net-ping_2.4.5-1_amd64.changes > E: php-net-ping: package-contains-ancient-file > usr/share/doc/php-net-ping/examples/example.php 1970-01-01 > > That error makes your package automatically rejected from dak, so it > can't be upload this way; please correct it. I also fixed this by repacking a new upstream release after a touch of the file. > Once the 2 issues above get fixed, I'll be happy to sponsor your > upload. Feel free to contact me (even in direct private mail) about > that. The new updated package (with the above fix) is still here: http://ftparchive.gplhost.com/debian/pool/lenny/main/p/php-net-ping/php-net-ping_2.4.5-1.dsc Please consider sponsoring. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
