Hello, I am adopting Yorick and packaging add-ons for this interpreted language aimed at scientific number crunching, data visualisation etc.
I know the packages need more work (in particular concerning the copyright files, removing commented-out dh_*lines in rules and rebuilding under sid), so I am not requesting a detailed review, but I think advice on the following few questions would be timely: * package granularity: I have currently 7 add-on packages (one more coming soon), each one rather small (few 100K each) but coming from a different upstream and depending on different libraries (like libtiff, zlib and other). Should I keep these add-ons separate or compile a single yorick-addons package? (I need this question sorted out before I start filling ITP bugs). I have the reversed question for the upcoming package (yeti, http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/~thiebaut/yeti/yeti-6.0.2.tar.gz ) which is indeed 4 plugins: a set of general purpose utilities, and wrappers for regex functionnalities, libtiff and libfftw2. If I stick to one package per plugin, should I split this one? There are also a couple of very specialised plugins (not yet packaged), I think I would definitely make distinct packages for those. * name space: I prepended yorick- to each upstream name to help users find out what add-ons are available, comments welcome. Some upstream names can really not be left untouched: e.g. "curses" for the curses wrapper... Of course this question is resolved if I go for a single package. * version numbers: upstream Yorick is named "2.1.02" although it is very regularly updated on cvs. I'm currently sticking to 2.1.01cvs<date> to be ready when an official 2.1.02 is released. The upstream author (and former Debian packager) is ready to create a CVS tag to give some substance to the version that will eventually go into Debian, even if not making a point release. Do you have any piece of wisdom with that respect? (Note that the CVS version contains changes I asked for for better Debian policy conformance, so I don't want to package the already released version 2.1.01). If I go for grouping all the add-ons in a single package, what version numbers should I use for it? The packages are available through the repository: deb http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~paumard/debian/ sarge main deb-src http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~paumard/debian/ sarge main The actual files are stored in: http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~paumard/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/ http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~paumard/debian/dists/sarge/main/source/ Thanks for your time and attention, Best regards, Thibaut. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
