I'm the developer of evolvotron, an interactive evolutionary art program. Home page: http://www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk/share/evolvotron/index.htm Examples: http://www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk/share/evolvotron/gallery.htm Project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/evolvotron/index.htm
I'd like to become the maintainer of a packaging of it for debian, if you're interested. There's my initial attempt at building a .deb and associates (following the new maintainer's guide) at: http://www.bottlenose.demon.co.uk/tmp/ (sorry, I don't have an ftp site, but the files should be retreivable using your browser's "download link" or similar). It installs a /usr/bin/evolvotron (and a couple of related command line apps) and creates an Apps/Graphics/evolvotron entry on the Debian menu. This is actually a .deb of work in progress so there is some dead functionality on the Settings/Functions menu. Depending on how fast things happen I'd actually expect to put the finished 0.2.4 release into Debian when it's done, or would fixup the last 0.2.3 release (which was missing man pages). A few of questions: - Does it matter that I built this on a testing rather than unstable system ? (I have a stable and a testing box here). - I was expecting (according to the guide) to have to enter a GPG key during thedpkg-buildpackage step. It didn't ask, but I'm guessing this because I haven't set myself up with gpg yet ? - The evolvotron sources come with a CHANGES file. In /usr/share/doc/evolvotron I seem to have ended up with a duplicate CHANGES.gz & changelog.gz plus a changelog.Debian.gz. Should I get rid of CHANGES and just have the changelogs, or is this not a big deal ? - Is there any policy on optimisation flags ? The evolvotron sources override the qmake supplied -O2 flag with -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -ffast-math, which last time I checked could render about 13% faster. Should I force them back to just -O2 for the debian build ? Thanks -- Tim Day - www.timday.com
