Re: [DebianGIS] help with dpatch

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

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On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:
> condensed results of:
>
> ubuntu_lucid$ lintian --info --display-info --display-experimental \
>   --pedantic --show-overrides --checksums --color auto \
>   opencpn_2.1.624a-1_amd64.deb

Usually you run it on the .changes file so that it checks the source
package too.

> I: opencpn: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 24309kB 89%
> N:    Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain

Whoa. Yeah most of that needs to be split out into a separate -data or
-common package. I personally usually keep the .desktop, .menu and
manual pages in the main package.

> I: opencpn: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
> N:    Severity: wishlist, Certainty: possible

Until doc-base is useful to desktop users, such a file it isn't really needed.

> P: opencpn: no-upstream-changelog
> N:    Severity: pedantic, Certainty: wild-guess

Ignore this one, policy really needs to be fixed here.

> I: opencpn: desktop-entry-contains-encoding-key /usr/share/applications/opencpn.desktop:4 Encoding
> N:    Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain
>
> W: opencpn: desktop-entry-contains-deprecated-key usr/share/applications/opencpn.desktop:15 TerminalOptions
> N:    Severity: normal, Certainty: certain

Run desktop-file-validate from in Debian sid (or newer) on the desktop
file to make sure there are not other problems.

> [last one fixed in patches/ once dpatch gets working]

Please use dpkg-source v3 instead of dpatch.

> `debuild binary` warnings:
> (?)
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on ...

These look like the might be bugs in other packages, either use
as-needed or ignore them.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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