Application Review Request: gmailwatcher-11.10.8

[Stéphane Graber]

NOTE: This submission was originally sent through the MyApps process.

Application Review For gmailwatcher-11.10.16

== About You ==

  * Name: Owais Lone
  * Email: hello[at]owaislone.org

== The Application ==

 * Tagline: Gmail notifier for Ubuntu
 * Description: A gmail desktop notifier for Ubuntu with support for instant notifications, multiple accounts and google apps mail. Emails are categorized on the basis of accounts and folders. Starred messages, Important messages and any other custom labels are indicated too.
 * License: GNU GPL v3
 * PPA URL: https://edge.launchpad.net/~loneowais/+archive/gmailwatcher.dev
 * Support: https://answers.launchpad.net/gmailwatcher
 * Target version of Ubuntu: 11.10

[Allison Randal (allison)]

Is this PPA still valid for gmailwatcher?

https://launchpad.net/~loneowais/+archive/ppa/

If you update it with 11.10.3, we can review those package files directly, rather than recreating them from the tarball.

[Owais Lone (loneowais)]

No, it contains the old version for Natty.

It has a new ppa now,

https://launchpad.net/~loneowais/+archive/gmailwatcher.dev/

I update quite often, so please pick up the latest version you find there. Current one is 11.10.7.

[Allison Randal (allison)]

Great, thanks!

I pulled down gmailwatcher_11.10.7.orig.tar.gz, gmailwatcher_11.10.7.debian.tar.gz, and gmailwatcher_11.10.7.dsc. The .debian.tar.gz and .dsc files look good on a quick pass through. The .orig.tar.gz includes some unusual files,

Only in gmailwatcher-ppa/debian/: files
Only in gmailwatcher-ppa/debian/: gmailwatcher
Only in gmailwatcher-ppa/debian/: gmailwatcher.debhelper.log
Only in gmailwatcher-ppa/debian/: gmailwatcher.substvars

It looks like the tarball was created from the directory after a package build, and included some files from the package build process?

[Owais Lone (loneowais)]

That's right. Actually, my source tree contains the debian packaging too but I can create and upload a pure source tarball without the debian stuff if required.

[Owais Lone (loneowais)]

I just pushed 11.10.8 with a clean source tarball.

https://launchpad.net/~loneowais/+archive/gmailwatcher.dev/+packages

[Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch)]

I took a look at 11.10.20 in the PPA (we do need the packaging to check over), and saw that you were also getting this checked over on REVU. Since there are additional requirements/limitations on apps in the ARB process, would you prefer getting this into precise & then backporting to oneiric, rather than maintaining separate packaging for extras.ubuntu.com?

[Owais Lone (loneowais)]

Hey Andrew,

Yes, It's currently undergoing the the review process and it's close :). I had to change a lot of packaging stuff to match the standards and one of them was letting go of /opt and installing just like other apps. So, as a result of that the packaging is not ARB complaint right now.

Yes, getting into precise and backporting to oneiric would be so much better than maintaining two packaging branches.

Thanks!

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

Cool. Marking this bug as invalid, since your package is going through REVU. If you decide to go through the ARB process instead, please reopen this bug.

Thanks!