Hi Anton,
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 08:00:14AM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hi Toby,
>
> as far as I know Andreas Tille proposed a nice and really necessary tool
> to exclude and repack source tarballs [1], [2] (CC-ing him). But, it seems,
> it is not yet in uscan (sorry, I may be wrong).
Files-Excluded can be used since devscripts 2.14.1 (currently in
testing). Other things suggested in [1],[2] are in devscripts Git and
might (hopefully) be available with the next devscripts release. So you
can use Files-Excluded but currently not yet by choosing a different
compression method.
> I would also strongly recommend you to implement autotests using DEP-8 [3].
> An example for python packages you can find here [4], [5]. Then your package
> will regularly be tested.
+1
Kind regards
Andreas.
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/UscanEnhancements
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/685506
> [3]
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD
> [4]
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/minieigen.git;a=tree;f=debian/tests;h=b9795fefdb5a539fb17fa343e9da4102a45fb15d;hb=HEAD
> [5]
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/getfem.git;a=tree;f=debian/tests;h=ef37721692b98161ccffad57907a2c040e86f0fb;hb=HEAD
>
> Regards
>
> Anton
>
>
> 2014-05-06 0:08 GMT+02:00 Toby St Clere Smithe <tsmi...@ubuntu.com>:
> > Hi Anton,
> >
> > further to the discussion earlier, over the next days I'm going to
> > collect together a couple of bug fixes, make a new upstream release, and
> > also do the repackaging. Then would you be happy to sponsor a new
> > upload?
> >
> > Also, I would still like to learn more about this new tool that you and
> > Thorsten mentioned, if you have a link to some reading :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Toby St Clere Smithe
> > http://tsmithe.net
> >
>
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