Re: Gnome Panel Applet to display IP address?

> I packaged it up into DEB... oh, looks like version 0.2 is out; time
> to pack that up :-)

Your package looks fine, but it could be fleshed out.

I don't know what your rules file looks like, but you should add a
change log, `dch'.

Then there are a few policy violations, which are sumarized as
/usr/local isn't allowed, and you're missing a copyright file.

$ lintian -i giplet.deb
E: giplet: dir-in-usr-local usr/local/bin/
N:
N: The package installs a directory in /usr/local/... which is not
N: allowed.
N:
N: If you want to provide an empty directory in /usr/local for
N: convenience of the local system administrator, please follow the rules
N: in the policy manual (section 9.1.2), i.e., create the directories in
N: the postinst script but don't fail if this isn't possible (e.g., if
N: /usr/local is mounted read-only).
N:
N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 9.1.2 for details.
N:
E: giplet: file-in-usr-local usr/local/bin/giplet.py
N:
N: The package installs a file in /usr/local/... which is not allowed.
N:
N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 9.1.2 for details.
N:
W: giplet: file-in-unusual-dir usr/local/bin/giplet.py
N:
N: This file or symbolic link is in a directory where files are not
N: normally installed by Debian packages.
N:
E: giplet: file-in-usr-local usr/local/bin/giplet_globals.py
W: giplet: file-in-unusual-dir usr/local/bin/giplet_globals.py
E: giplet: no-copyright-file
N:
N: Each binary package has to include a plain file
N: /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/copyright
N:
N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 12.5 for details.
N:
Received on Fri Aug 25 08:20:11 2006