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-python-version-field
  • x-python-version 2.5
• W ancient-standards-version
  • 3.8.2 (released 2009-06-16) (current is 4.3.0)
• P co-maintained-package-with-no-vcs-fields
• I debian-pycompat-is-obsolete
• W debian-rules-uses-deprecated-makefile
  • line 6 /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk
• X debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature
• I debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri
  • http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/hippo-canvas/0.(.*)/hippo-canvas-(.*)\.tar\.gz
• I duplicate-short-description
  • libhippocanvas-1-0 libhippocanvas-dev
• P file-contains-trailing-whitespace
  • debian/changelog (line 102)
  • debian/changelog (line 111)
  • debian/changelog (line 112)
  • debian/changelog (line 145)
  • debian/changelog (line 26)
  • debian/changelog (line 27)
  • debian/changelog (line 34)
  • debian/changelog (line 35)
  • debian/changelog (line 45)
  • debian/control (line 12)
  • debian/control (line 18)
  • debian/control (line 19)
  • debian/control (line 7)
  • debian/control (line 8)
• E missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command
  • dh_python2 => dh-python
• W missing-debian-source-format
• P no-dep5-copyright
• W package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version
  • 5
• W python-foo-but-no-python3-foo
  • python-hippocanvas
• I testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
• X upstream-metadata-file-is-missing

libhippocanvas-1-0 (0.3.1-1.2+b1; main)

• P copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL [amd64, i386]
• P copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright
• 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 [amd64, i386]
• I no-symbols-control-file
  • usr/lib/libhippocanvas-1.so.0.0.0 [amd64, i386]

libhippocanvas-dev (0.3.1-1.2+b1; main)

• P copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL [amd64, i386]
• P copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright
• W description-synopsis-starts-with-article
• X package-contains-no-arch-dependent-files
• W pkg-config-unavailable-for-cross-compilation
  • usr/lib/pkgconfig/hippo-canvas-1.pc [amd64, i386]

python-hippocanvas (0.3.1-1.2+b1; main)

• P copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
  • usr/share/common-licenses/GPL [amd64, i386]
• P copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright
• I hardening-no-bindnow
  • usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/hippo.so [amd64, i386]