Debian maintenance of the Gnome Online Desktop

At the time of the last Lintian run, the following possible problems were found in packages maintained by Debian maintenance of the Gnome Online Desktop <online-desktop-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, listed by source package. See also the report showing only errors and warnings. Also see their QA overview.

• W ancient-standards-version
  • 3.8.2 (current is 4.0.0)
• C debian-build-system
  • cdbs-with-debhelper.mk, debhelper
• I debian-pycompat-is-obsolete
• W debian-rules-uses-deprecated-makefile
  • line 6 /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk
• P debian-watch-may-check-gpg-signature
• I duplicate-short-description
  • libhippocanvas-1-0 libhippocanvas-dev
• E missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command
  • dh_python2 => dh-python
• I missing-debian-source-format
• P no-dep5-copyright
• W package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version
  • 5
• C source-format
  • 1.0 [implicit non-native]
• I testsuite-autopkgtest-missing

libhippocanvas-1-0

• P copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
• P copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright
• C ctrl-script
  • postinst
  • postinst
  • postrm
  • postrm
• C debhelper-autoscript-in-maintainer-scripts
  • dh_makeshlibs
  • dh_makeshlibs
• W description-synopsis-starts-with-article
• I extended-description-is-probably-too-short
• I hardening-no-bindnow
  • usr/lib/libhippocanvas-1.so.0.0.0
  • usr/lib/libhippocanvas-1.so.0.0.0
• W maintscript-calls-ldconfig
  • postinst
  • postinst
  • postrm
  • postrm
• I no-symbols-control-file
  • usr/lib/libhippocanvas-1.so.0.0.0
  • usr/lib/libhippocanvas-1.so.0.0.0
• E package-must-activate-ldconfig-trigger
  • usr/lib/libhippocanvas-1.so.0.0.0
  • usr/lib/libhippocanvas-1.so.0.0.0

libhippocanvas-dev

• P copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
• P copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright
• W description-synopsis-starts-with-article
• C no-ctrl-scripts

python-hippocanvas

• P copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
• P copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright
• I hardening-no-bindnow
  • usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hippo.so
  • usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hippo.so
• C no-ctrl-scripts