Request for review

[Stefano Rivera]

Hi Robert (2012.07.22_02:18:36_+0200)
> I also sent an IFP to debian's WNPP but I'm not really sure how to
> proceed with the actual getting of the package into debian beyond
> that. I'd like some general feedback as it's my first package ever and
> it may be a bit rough around the edges.

The best reference I can see for that is [0]. Basically, either you mail
the debian-mentors mailing list, asking for someone to sponsor it, or
you file a bug against sponsorship-requests (which achieves the same
thing, but keeps an open bug to track the review process in) [1].

[0]: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#How_do_I_add_a_new_package_to_the_archive.3F
[1]: http://wiki.debian.org/Mentors/BTS

> lintian gives a couple warnings, but they don't seem especially
> relevant to me (eg, no manpage, but it's a graphical app that comes
> with a good deal of on screen help, so a man page would be pointless).

A manpage isn't entirely pointless. You can read a long thread on the
topic [2], the end result of which was that Debian should still try and
have manpages for graphical applications, even if they are fairly short
and un-interesting.

[2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy/12983

When someone does look at your application, they'll probably point you
at all the things lintian had to say. So it's worth considering each
issue it raised, and whether it's worth fixing.

I try and keep my packages lintian clean [3], except for the issues that
really are implausible to fix. There's nothing you can do about
upstreams without changelogs, for instance.

[3]: http://lintian.debian.org/full/stefanor@debian.org.html

> Anyway, any help or advice is appreciated. I'm a bit overwhelmed by
> all the reading I've been doing these last couple days, so my
> apologies if I've overlooked something.

I think that's fairly normal. We have a lot of documentation :)

SR

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