Bug 599324

*** Bug 492165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Hi Tareq, here are some quick comments:

- the license seems to be GPLv2+ (according to the source headers)
- use %{version} in Source0 to simplify future package updates
- COPYING is missing in %doc
- drop empty file NEWS from %doc


$ rpmlint /var/lib/mock/fedora-13-i386/result/*.rpm
rotoscope.i686: W: name-repeated-in-summary C rotoscope
rotoscope.i686: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US rotoscoping -> arthroscopic, stroboscopic, gyroscopic
rotoscope.i686: E: zero-length /usr/share/doc/rotoscope-0.2/NEWS
rotoscope.src: W: name-repeated-in-summary C rotoscope
rotoscope.src: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US rotoscoping -> arthroscopic, stroboscopic, gyroscopic
3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 4 warnings.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hi Tareq, here are some quick comments:
> 
> - the license seems to be GPLv2+ (according to the source headers)
> - use %{version} in Source0 to simplify future package updates
> - COPYING is missing in %doc
> - drop empty file NEWS from %doc
> 
> 
> $ rpmlint /var/lib/mock/fedora-13-i386/result/*.rpm
> rotoscope.i686: W: name-repeated-in-summary C rotoscope
> rotoscope.i686: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US rotoscoping ->
> arthroscopic, stroboscopic, gyroscopic
> rotoscope.i686: E: zero-length /usr/share/doc/rotoscope-0.2/NEWS
> rotoscope.src: W: name-repeated-in-summary C rotoscope
> rotoscope.src: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US rotoscoping ->
> arthroscopic, stroboscopic, gyroscopic
> 3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 4 warnings.    

Thx martin,

*First warning fixed.
*Second warning could be ignored since rotoscoping is a word http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
*Error fixed

Spec URL:
http://taljurf.fedorapeople.org/Packages/i686/rotoscope/rotoscope.spec
SRPM URL:
http://taljurf.fedorapeople.org/Packages/i686/rotoscope/rotoscope-0.2-2.fc12.src.rpm

The source URL should look like this:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rotoscope/rotoscope_%{version}.orig.tar.gz
(see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Sourceforge.net)

Is the project still maintained upstream? The latest release is 3 years old and marked as pre-alpha (so there might be a couple of issues to be fixed).

I'll contact upstream to see the project's status.

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It's been nearly six months; was there ever any update about the project status?

I contacted the developer, and he replies that the project is currently dead but he may continue later.