Re: Gnome Panel Applet to display IP address?

Thanks for the tips and especially for pointing me to the lintian program!

CK

On 8/25/06, Steven Kurylo <sk@infinitepigeons.org> wrote:
>
> > 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:
>
>
>
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> Steven Kurylo
>
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Received on Fri Aug 25 20:26:47 2006