[Merge] lp:~nataliabidart/ubuntu/natty/magicicada/magicicada-0.3.0 into lp:ubuntu/magicicada

Stefano Rivera launchpad at rivera.za.net
Fri Jan 7 20:48:25 UTC 2011


Thanks, that was quick.

> I thought we had to put the actual maintainers on that field.
> Can you please confirm?

I'm not sure on Maintainer policy either, best I can tell is that Ubuntu tends to use Ubuntu Developers for ubuntu-only packages. The reason for this is that Ubuntu packages don't have strong maintainers, but are maintained by all Ubuntu developers. However, there is no policy I know of stipulating this, so I'm happy with it as is.

> what is DEP5? And how should it be updated?

DEP5 is the machine-readable changelog format. http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
A few of the fields have changed name, and there should only be one (multi-line) copyright item.

The licence block for GPL-3 should probably be:
License: GPL-3
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 General Public License for more details.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
 version 3 can be found in the /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 file.

> Could you please be more specific where dh_python2 should be used?

dh_python2 is a replacement for python-support and python-central. Instead of creating per-python-version symlink farms at install time, they are shipped in the package, and only byte-compilation is done at install time. Unfortunately there is little documentation on it that I can point you to (yet).

CDBS only gained support in 0.4.90 (which isn't in Ubuntu yet), so the best way to use it is probably to switch to debhelper.

Here's a trivial port, which is untested, but looks ok: http://paste.ubuntu.com/551612/

> what would be a better formatting?
Wrapping like this

* this is a multilne
  bulleted point.

Oh, and lintian says "Splitted" isn't an english word. It's right about that :)
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