Hi Jon, CC'ing the debian med team - since it'd be nice to have this discussion in the public - with more people to help.
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 19:52, Jon Peirce <jon.pei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there > > I noticed you'd done a spot of work building a deb package for PsychoPy. > Is that right? If so it's great! > I just added in a few tests and did an upload switching to a new upstream version, since it hadn't been updated in a while. > We used to have a package built by the neurodebian team but they ot too > busy and I've been relying on python wheels for a while but a deb option > would be awesome to get back :-) > You can get the latest ".deb" without building from here[1]. However you can as well clone the repository from salsa and build it yourself. I'm not sure if I understood your statement correctly, but you probably mean this hadn't been updated and you needed the updated deb? [1]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/psychopy/download > Is there anything I can do to check that the package has worked? > Sure, go ahead and install the package - and do all the manual testing you need to do. That being said, the current state has package tests enabled and I also had done a bit of manual testing before uploading, but more eyeballs reviewing the package is always nice :-) > By the way, I'm afraid there are likely to be a few bug-fix releases. > You've uploaded the .1 release but we often have a few quick releases in a > new series. I hope that's OK? Having got this one done maybe it isn't hard > to repeat the recipe for subsequent packages? > ACK. I'll update it to .2 version in the coming days and do an upload with the latest upstream version. > best wishes and thanks for your work - I know packaging is (often) painful > and (always unnoticed by the users! :-) > Thanks a lot for all your work in maintaining psychopy :-) Your effort to collaborate so that upstream and the debian package are in direct coherence is very well appreciated :-) Kind Regards, Nilesh
