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review for gtg/0.6-1



hi Francois,

I took a look at the gtg package put up for sponsorship in the Python
team:

* changelog:
 + multiple entries for revisions that did enter the archive (0.3.1-2
   through 4) appear to have gone missing?
 + there's about a dozen open bugs against the old package, yet only
   a single one gets closed. Did you review the outstanding bugs and
   check if any of them are fixed by the new upstream release and/or
   the revamped packaging?
 + it's team policy to keep the target distribution at UNRELEASED
   while a package is under review.
 + ITP bug not closed upon package reintroduction?
* clean: consider converting the entries for deleting pycache stuff
  at depths other than 3 to also use globbing.                  
* control:
 + long description should be extended. Assume the reader knows
   little or nothing about the application at all; what can it do,
   what makes it special, what services does it integrate with, and
   so on. Take a look at the upstream homepage if you need
   inspiration.
 + why list the old maintainer as uploader?
 + multiple missing dependencies for utilities called by
   script_pocketmod.
 + missing dep gir1.2-secret-1 (for the optional import of
   gi.repository.Secret in GTG/core/keyring.py)
 + missing dep for optional import of gi.repository.GnomeKeyring in
   GTG/core/keyring.py (though it seems that's not yet packaged in
   Debian so we might have to forego it for now).
 + missing dep gir1.2-pango-1.0 (for the unconditional import of
   Pango in GTG/gtk/browser/treeview_factory.py and other files; as
   well as PangoCairo in GTG/gtk/browser/cell_renderer_tags.py)
 + unused build-dep on itstool?
 + lots of build-deps only appear useful for testing; please mark
   those <!nocheck>.
* copyright:
 + public domain without explanation detailing exactly what exemption
   the files in question have from default copyright restrictions.
 + GTG/plugins/dev_console/* headers say LGPL, not GPL.
 + one Jean-François Fortin Tam is listed in the 'Files: *'
   paragraph, but only appears as a copyright holder in two files
   (GTG/core/info.py.in and a single translation).
* docs: what purpose does a list of upstream authors serve as end
  user documentation?
* patches: two out of three patches at first glance appear useful for
  inclusion upstream, yet all are marked 'Forwarded: not-needed'?
* rules:
 + override_dh_auto_install starts by calling dh_auto_install;
   consider using execute_after_ instead of an override in such cases.
 + upstream testsuite (based on pytest) not run on build, why?
* lintian:
 + X: gtg: executable-in-usr-lib
   usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/GTG/plugins/export/export_templates/script_pocketmod
   (wrong install location per FHS?)
 + X: gtg: executable-in-usr-lib
   usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/GTG/core/networkmanager.py (imported
   as a python module, file probably shouldn't be executable at all?)
* autopkgtests:
 + please change directory to $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP before running test
   commands to ensure the test doesn't depend on anything from the
   extracted source pkg, see best practices at [1].
 + consider adding an autopkgtest based on the upstream testsuite.
* source: variables not properly quoted in 'script_pocketmod', cannot
  handle spaces (etc.) in the path of the source file; please patch.


Once the above comments have been addressed, simply re-add the
package to the IRC channel topic.

Note: I didn't do any functional testing yet, in light of the need
for significant changes to the current packaging.


[1]https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/AutopkgtestBestPractices

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