Bug 165552 - Review Request: banner - Prints a short string to the console in very large letters
Summary: Review Request: banner - Prints a short string to the console in very large l...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Howarth
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL: http://http://filelister.linux-kernel...
Whiteboard:
: 165690 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: FE-ACCEPT 538076
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-08-10 12:56 UTC by Oliver Falk
Modified: 2009-11-20 08:30 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-08-22 11:16:57 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:
j: fedora-cvs+


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Description Oliver Falk 2005-08-10 12:56:51 UTC
Spec Name: banner.spec
SRPM Name: banner-1.3.1-1.src.rpm
Description:
Classic-style banner program similar to the one found in Solaris or AIX.
The banner program prints a short string to the console in very large
letters. Also a good example of a very small autoconf-enabled program.
Written in ANSI C.

Comment 1 Oliver Falk 2005-08-10 13:21:46 UTC
Everything seems fine, except the License. Are you sure about 'GPL or Artistic'?
I believe it's only Artistic.

Comment 2 Oliver Falk 2005-08-10 13:23:25 UTC
Shit, wrong bug. Forget Comment #1.

Comment 3 Paul Howarth 2005-08-17 10:45:32 UTC
Review:

- rpmlint not clean - see NeedsWork below
- naming of package and spec meets guidelines
- package meets guidelines
- license is GPL, text included in package
- spec file written in English and is legible
- source matches upstream
- package builds ok in FC4 and in mock for devel (i386)
- no locales, libraries, subpackages, pkgconfigs etc. to worry about
- not relocatable
- no directory ownership issues
- no duplicate files
- permissions are fine
- %clean section present and correct
- macro usage is consistent
- code, not content
- no large docs
- docs don't affect runtime

Needswork:

- the Group: tag of "Toys" is not from the list in /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/GROUPS
(this is the cause of the rpmlint not being clean). I suggest
"Amusements/Graphics" or "Applications/Text" (probably the latter) instead.

Comments:

- I recall using a "banner" program on an old SunOS box, which printed text in
*very* large letters indeed, such that they could be printed on roll or
fold-feed paper and be visible from the other end of a large office. Those were
the days...

- I'd include ChangeLog as %doc

- The last two sentences in %description about it being a good example of a very
small autoconf-enabled program, written in ANSI C, are probably not of interest
to prospective users of the package. Personally I'd drop them.


Comment 4 Paul Howarth 2005-08-17 10:50:51 UTC
*** Bug 165690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Paul Howarth 2005-08-22 09:55:50 UTC
Approved.

Comment 7 Oliver Falk 2005-08-22 10:55:28 UTC
cvs imported. What is the correct bugzilla status now? NEXTRELEASE?

Comment 8 Paul Howarth 2005-08-22 11:02:49 UTC
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/NewPackageProcess

When your builds are done, close the bug NEXTRELEASE.


Comment 9 Christian Iseli 2006-10-18 09:12:25 UTC
Normalize summary field for easy parsing

Comment 10 Oliver Falk 2009-11-18 14:00:36 UTC
Package Change Request
======================
Package Name: banner
New Branches: EL-5
Owners: jima oliver

Comment 11 Kevin Fenzi 2009-11-19 00:45:34 UTC
cvs done.

Comment 12 Oliver Falk 2009-11-19 11:54:36 UTC
Package Change Request
======================
Package Name: banner
New Branches: EL-4
Owners: jima oliver


Sorry. Forgot EL-4 :-(

Comment 13 Jason Tibbitts 2009-11-19 23:15:28 UTC
I can't find any indication of an ack from the current package owner, but I guess this was already branched for EL-5 so an EL-4 branch probably isn't going to hurt anything.  In the future, please follow EPEL policy when requesting EPEL branches of existing packages that you do not own.  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL

CVS done.

Comment 14 Oliver Falk 2009-11-20 08:30:20 UTC
See comment in #537805  :-) The same is true for this...


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