tfortune, branch pu

debian: Update release notes for lintian-clean upload.

2024-04-28T14:08:24Z

Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

debian: Prefer https over http and git.

2024-04-28T14:08:24Z

It is recommended to use an unencrypted transport protocol. Suggested-by: lintian(1) Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

debian: Update debhelper version.

2024-04-28T14:08:24Z

This is the version shipped currently with Debian 12 (Bookworm), which is the oldest version we care about since the support for Debian Bullseye (11) runs out soon. Remove the redundant debian/compat file while at it. Suggested-by: lintian(1) Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

debian: Declare that the build does not require root.

2024-04-28T14:08:24Z

Building tfortune does not require elevated privileges, neither root nor fakeroot. Setting this tells builders to run any target as an unprivileged user. Suggested-by: lintian(1) Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

debian: Use machine-readable debian/copyright file.

2024-04-28T14:08:24Z

Machine-readable copyright files are generally recommended to deal with the diversity of free software licenses. See https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for details. Since the package contains epigrams in the public domain as well as source code which is licensed under the GPL-3, we need two Files stanzas and two stand-alone License stanzas, plus the required header stanza. By convention, the last matching Files: pattern applies, so the pattern for the epigrams needs to listed *after* the asterisk pattern that matches everything. Suggested-by: lintian(1) Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

debian: Update Standards-Version.

2024-04-28T14:08:24Z

Scanning through the changes listed in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz (after installing the debian-policy package) indicated that tfortune is compliant with the current standard. Suggested-by: lintian(1) Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

debian: Add watch file and public signing key.

2024-04-28T14:08:24Z

The watch file is an adjusted version of the "direct access to the git repository (tags)" example of uscan(1) (part of the devscripts package), which is appropriate for tfortune since the project does not publish release tarballs. The key file was created with gpg --export --export-options export-minimal --armor \ 87B45FDC6D91B2CA5BEAAB545ADA35403100930F > signing-key.asc Suggested-by: lintian(1) Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

Prefer https protocol.

2024-04-28T14:08:20Z

The http link in one of the epigrams has become stale, and switching to https does not work either, so remove this link. Thanks to Johannes Wörner for setting up https on the git server. Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

Improve lopsub error diagnostics.

2024-04-28T14:08:03Z

If the lopsub package is not installed, the check for the lopsubgen executable is the first thing that fails, so we print "lopsubgen required" and exit without also showing the detailed information which tells the user how to obtain the package. Move the check down, so that the build fails with the detailed message, and also educate the user that lopsub is also available as a Debian package. Reviewed-by: Andreas Metzler

Document changes, upload to unstable.

2024-04-21T14:27:34Z

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll