Hi Allesandro, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> * URL : http://www.nongnu.org/failmalloc [...] > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/failmalloc/failmalloc_1.0-1.dsc Since I am not a Debian Developer, I cannot upload this. Some comments anyway. > Package: libfailmalloc-dev > Description: Memory allocation failure crash-test tool (development files) [...] > This package provides the development files for the failmalloc library. Does failmalloc have a public API? Is it meant to be linked into programs without using the LD_PRELOAD mechanism? If not, what good is a development library for it? > Package: libfailmalloc0 > Description: Memory allocation failure crash-test tool I would suggest installing it to /usr/lib/libfailmalloc/libfailmalloc.so . That way, there is no temptation to link programs to it explicitly. Unversioned since there is no reason to install multiple versions at once. Since you are selling it as a tool rather than a preload library (reasonable enough), have you considered providing a /usr/bin/failmalloc script to do the LD_PRELOAD automatically? See fakeroot for inspiration. > #!/usr/bin/make -f > # -*- makefile -*- > # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. It's not a sample any more, is it? I'd suggest removing the authorship notice. #!/usr/bin/make -f %: dh $@ is too simple to require the notice for moral reasons, I'd think. As legal reasons go, "without restriction" includes the ability to remove the blurb. Or you can copy from /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.tiny by the same author which does not include that notice. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101208071403.ga26...@burratino
