Hi!
As promised, a couple of notes regarding the packaging:
* Is there any particular reason you're not using 3.0 (quilt) source
format?
Not a bug, just curious.
* debian/README & debian/control
Most of the content is better suited for the long description. When
the package is already installed, you don't need to prove its worth
anymore.
On that note, merging the README into the long description would also
make the latter a lot more useful.
Just by reading the long description, I'd have absolutely no idea why
I would want to install the package, or how it differs from existing
XML parser libraries.
* debian/copyright
There's two issues with the copyright file: first, it refers to
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL instead of LGPL, and second, it refers
to an unversioned file.
The former is a bigger issue, which should be corrected ASAP, the
latter is cosmetic and pedantic at best. It's trivial to correct
though, and has no downsides in my opinion.
* debian/docs
Why are you installing the LGPL?
* debian/libroxml0.postinst
As far as I see, this only does an ldconfig. Something which debhelper
will add too, on it's own. So this file could be safely removed.
* debian/rules
Now, this is a place where I'll wreak havoc, as this is just plain
ugly. Sorry about that, but that's how it is.
First of all, you have a configure and configure-stamp target-pair,
which do absolutely nothing, but touch a stamp file. Useless noise.
Second, your build, build-arch and build-indep dependencies are,
well... incorrect.
You do not build any arch-indep package, yet, build-indep depends on
build-stamp, which will also build the arch-specific
stuff. build-indep in this case should be a no-op.
Something like the following should simplify the building:
build: build-arch build-indep
build-indep: ;
build-arch: build-stamp
build-stamp:
dh_testdir
${MAKE} doxy
${MAKE}
touch $@
You could even remove the build-stamp target, merging it into
build-arch, and removing the touch. A second call to it would trigger
a new doxy build and a make run, but personally, I think that's
acceptable. (Do note that I'm not a fan of stamp files, not by far)
And that's all, after a quick review. Apologies for my harsh words here
and there, it's nothing personal, I just happen to have a strong opinion
on what's the One True Way(tm) to do stuff. ;)
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