On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:08:54AM -0300, Thiago Franco Moraes wrote: >> >> I was in touch with Michael Hanke some months ago about sigar >> packaging. Acording to him, these were the problems: >> >> - build dependency 'ant' seems to be missing > > ?? > $ LANG=en apt-cache policy ant | head -n 2 > ant: > Installed: 1.8.0-4 > > Ant is available since ... hmmmm, ages.
Ah, that was my fault. I was only trying to package the java binding, only tests. I just forget to put ant in dependencies. >> - changelog doesn't list ITP bug number > > You should file a bug report against the virtual WNPP package - just > tell me if this hint is not enough and you need more detailed > information. I filled a bug report here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575873 >> - in debian/control libsigar package has section 'lib' but should be >> 'libs' or removed > > So why not changing to libs? Michael did that. >> - there are lots of *.ex files in the dsc (but not in git) > > This should be easy to fix. (see below) > >> - any reason to use --with-quilt in debian/rules explicitely? If yes, >> then quilt build-dep is missing > > This should be easy to answer if there is a debian/patches dir. > >> - I saw that you build a shared lib of libsigar -- did you talk to >> upstream about SO version management yet? > > That's a more interesting question. So did anybody talked to upstream? About that no. And it something I don't have any knowledgment. I need some help here. >> - debian.copyright is still a template > > Do you need help to fill in the text into this template? If yes just > let us know. Yes, I need some help. Here http://forums.hyperic.com/jiveforums/thread.jspa?threadID=9833 I asked the sigar developers about copyright. >> - a debclean doesn't clean things properly > > This just needs to be checked (Git URL would be helpful). > >> I was trying to package the java binding but I wasn't able, so I >> thought to not package the java binding. > > I have no idea whether this binding is actually needed for some purpose. > If not we might ignore this for the moment. Otherwise it would be > interesting to know exactly what the exact problem was what you stopped > you. I don't have any experience with java.I don't know what files are necessaries and how to test if the java sigar bindings is working. >> But the other problems I >> haven't seen yet. Michael Hanke created a branch in github to do the >> sigar packaging (https://github.com/hanke/sigar/tree/debian) and I >> forked that (https://github.com/tfmoraes/sigar/tree/debian), but I >> didn't have time to work in it. > > Is there any reason not to use > > git.debian.org/git/debian-med/sigar Because sigar is using github. > (or any other location at git.debian.org because it is not really Debian > Med centric)? I mean finally it does not matter where the repository is > located but having everything Debian packaging related at debian.org > makes perfectly sense to me (and BTW has actual technical advantages for > me personally). > > So I would really love to push this a bit. For the future: If a > sponsor / mentor finds problems like those you mentioned above in a > package and you have no idea how to proceed - just ask here. We are > interested to move these things foreward. OK. Thanks! > Kind regards and thanks for your work on this so far > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=jwrbxmcxddc2esmek3b958_nof4bvegsef...@mail.gmail.com
