[DRE-commits] r4109 - trunk/website/src
Lucas Nussbaum
lucas at alioth.debian.org
Sat Sep 12 07:43:13 UTC 2009
Author: lucas
Date: 2009-09-12 07:43:13 +0000 (Sat, 12 Sep 2009)
New Revision: 4109
Modified:
trunk/website/src/38.sponsorship.en.page
Log:
add note about testing the package
Modified: trunk/website/src/38.sponsorship.en.page
===================================================================
--- trunk/website/src/38.sponsorship.en.page 2009-09-12 07:34:56 UTC (rev 4108)
+++ trunk/website/src/38.sponsorship.en.page 2009-09-12 07:43:13 UTC (rev 4109)
@@ -6,12 +6,13 @@
Once your package is ready (or at least, once you think it is), a DD will have to review your changes and upload it to the archive. It is important to understand that reviewing and sponsoring packages is a tedious process, and that most DDs would prefer to do something else instead. So, make sure that you make the best possible use of their time, so they will be happy to sponsor you again. :-)
-First, make sure that your package is really in good shape. That means answering the following questions:
+First, make sure that your package is really in good shape. That means answering at least the following questions:
* Does my package build fine in a clean chroot? The easiest way to test that is using @pbuilder at .
* Is my package lintian-clean? If not, did I explain why it isn't in debian/changelog? Note that real problems should not be hidden by lintian overrides.
* Did I check that all usages of rubygems have been patched out?
* Is my debian/watch file correct? That file will be used by your sponsor to fetch the upstream source, so it is very important that it is correct. Please check that @uscan --download-current-version@ does the right thing.
* Is the SVN up-to-date? Did I commit all my changes? (Check with @svn status@)
+ * Does my package actually work? Please check in a clean chroot, it's easy to miss some @require at s.
Once your package is ready, you must:
* Change the distribution from @UNRELEASED@ to @unstable at .
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