Hi Sébastien, On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:59:27PM -0500, Sébastien Boisvert wrote: > > I want the ray-extra because ray contains the executable Ray whereas > ray-extra has some R and python scripts which are not used in most Ray > workflows. Thus, I don't want the ray package to require (or suggest) > r-base-core or python.
Right, avoiding some extra dependencies which are usually unneeded is a fair reason for a separate binary package. > ray-doc contains documentation not required to operate Ray. > The man page alone is sufficient. I understood this but as I previosely said I personally would not split these few bytes from the main package. But in any case it is your decision as the person responsible for the package. I just wanted to make sure you are aware about typical reasons for splitting and that your decision was not simply after having read in the docs that it is possible to split up into different binary packages. > >In the end it is > >a matter of taste but if you would decide to keep these packages they > >should be "Architecture: all" in any case. > > Fixed. Fine. I guess now you need to fire up lintian -i ray_2.1.0-1_amd64.changes which tells you about some issues of your packaging. The explanation that are triggered in verbose mode (-i) should give you a reasonable clue what needs to be done but in any case feel free to ask here if you might stumble upon any issue you might not understand. Regarding W: ray: hardening-no-relro usr/bin/Ray W: ray: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/bin/Ray I would recommend to simply try debian/compat: 9 and in Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) which gives you good chances that hardening will be switched on in case Ray has a properly crafted build system. BTW, in debian/changelog you are using "stable" as target distribution. Besides the fact that you *never* can upload to stable and always have to target at "unstable" our convention is to use "UNRELEASED" in VCS as long as the package is not yet uploaded. Kind regards and thanks for your work on this Andreas. > Sent from my IBM Blue Gene/Q Way cooler than any other booring "Sent from my ..." signatures. :-) -- 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/20121106071817.ga7...@an3as.eu