vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

[Paul Harris <harri-pc@ee.uwa.edu.au>]

hi,

i'm in progress of fixing up the whole of vrweb (i think i can close all
the bugs! woo hoo), but am having some problems (probably something
simple):

- I change the maintainer entry (i want to become a debeloper... how many
times has someone come up with that one?) and try to run "dch -v 1.5-3" to
change the version number from 1.5-2, but the editor put Fabien's name
(automatically) at the end of my changes spot. i entered my stuff and
name, saved but it exited with: 

dch: fatal error at line 283:
Error editing the changelog: Illegal seek

what am i supposed to do? just manually edit everything?

- i noticed that the produced debian package (i just had to make one to
see what happened, without all the changes stuff) has all its paths
starting with '.', eg: 
-rwxr-xr-x root/root   2515880 1999-09-23 01:22:34 ./usr/X11R6/bin/vrweb
whats that all about?

- i noticed that the docs are all split up:
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1999-09-23 01:22:30 ./usr/doc/vrweb/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1999-09-23 01:22:30
./usr/doc/vrweb/examples/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1999-09-23 01:22:31 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1999-09-23 01:22:30 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 1999-09-23 01:22:35 ./usr/share/doc/vrweb/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2442 1997-05-28 02:01:18
./usr/share/doc/vrweb/README-Unix.gz

i was going to look at correcting this, but i noticed that the
debian-policy 3.0.1.1 (current right?) says that docs go in /usr/share/doc
. thats not right is it? what about all this FHS stuff thats been flying
around in debian-devel/debian-policy? have i missed something?

hope someone can enlighten me... :)

Paul