Comment 11 for bug 601865

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) wrote :

Hello bilal

Here is a review again!

1.Your changelog contains changes made in the debian package too whereas you should list only ubuntu specific changes in changelog

2. There is an absence of Maintainer field which generally has a @ubuntu.com address otherwise debuild fails on my system

bhavani@bhavani-desktop:~/development/krename/krename-4.0.4/debian$ debuild -S -sa -k4E5D6C5B
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package krename
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 4.0.4-2ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Bilal Akthar <email address hidden>
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --with kde
   dh_testdir
   dh_auto_clean --buildsystem=kde
find: `./apps/konqueror': No such file or directory
find: `./kdesktop': No such file or directory
find: `./runtime/drkonqi': No such file or directory
find: `./workspace/khotkeys': No such file or directory
find: `./workspace/kwin': No such file or directory
find: `./runtime/kioslave/desktop': No such file or directory
cat: ./kolf/courses.list: No such file or directory
find: `./bovo/themes': No such file or directory
find: `./katomic/levels': No such file or directory
find: `./amor/data': No such file or directory
find: `./kdeprint': No such file or directory
find: `./kopete': No such file or directory
find: `./digikam': No such file or directory
   dh_clean
 dpkg-source -b krename-4.0.4
dpkg-source: error: Version number suggests Ubuntu changes, but Maintainer: does not have Ubuntu address
dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)'
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b krename-4.0.4 gave error exit status 255
debuild: fatal error at line 1340:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa failed

(Hint: please use the update-maintainer script in ubuntu-dev-tools package to set the Maintainer field in debian/control)

3. The patch is generated automatically due to the changes outside debian directory and due to the use of 3.0 (quilt) format and it is unneeded as MoM says:

"Try and keep the diff small, this may involve manually tweaking po files and thelike."

And moreover the translations from upstream/debian are imported into rosetta after you have got the package uploaded. So the po file patch and the debian/series change is not required.

Regards