Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:31:50PM -0400, Zachary Palmer a écrit :
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "folding".
* Package name : folding
Version : 5.04+1
Upstream Author : Zachary Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : N/A
* License : GPL
Section : contrib/science
Dear Zachary,
being on a ppc platform, I can not test your package. However I have the
following comments :
* What is this build script in the root directory ? apt-file search
do32 (a program that the script tries to invoke) does not find
anything...
* debian/docs and debian/conffiles are empty.
* In the control file you could use Homepage: http://folding.standford.edu/
(with a two space before the H).
* debian/dirs lack an end of line character, and as a consequence cat dirs
does not display the last line.
I am not a DD anyway, so I can not sponsor your package. But you will
save time to potential sponsors anyway by solving these points.
PS: If you want to manage the sources of your pacakge in a SVN, I think
that the debian-med SVN on Alioth could host you.
Have a nice day,
Charles,
Thank you for your response!
* The presence of the build script is an accident. I am on an AMD64
system and am using that script at the moment to chroot into my 32-bit
environment to build the package; it was a quick hack to ensure the
package was built for the i386 architecture and not the amd64
architecture. It's not like it makes a difference in practice since the
package's contents are exclusively bash scripts, but I know that
building in my 64-bit environment produced "*_amd64.deb" files. I will
move it out of the way before I upload another try.
* To the best of my knowledge, this package has no documentation nor any
configuration files. The [EMAIL PROTECTED] software automatically detects a
configuration file "client.cfg" in the present working directory, which
is /var/lib/folding/ and which is also the place where it writes its
work queue, checkpoints, and other transient data. There is no way that
I have found to instruct the software to put the files anywhere else. I
see three possibilities to solve this:
1. Leave it as is (which is obviously not desirable).
2. Create a symlink to a configuration file so that the configuration is
actually stored somewhere else. If I did this, where would be an
appropriate place to store the file? /etc/folding?
3. Mark the entire /var/lib/folding directory as a configuration file.
Is that possible? That's the current behavior of the package, but it's
enforced by the postrm script and not by the package metadata.
* I could use http://folding.stanford.edu as the homepage for the
project. However, I have been encouraged to make a distinction between
Stanford's software (the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client) and my software (the bash
script that downloads and installs the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client for you). My
software does not have a homepage. With this in mind, should I still
put the [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage in the control file?
* I have fixed the lack of an newline character at the end of debian/dirs.
Again, I appreciate your feedback. I have built a few Debian packages
in the past for my own use but am quite sure that they wouldn't have
been accepted for distribution because of nuances and policy violations
like these. ;) Have a nice day!
Regards,
Zachary Palmer
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