Hi, I'm attaching my packaging draft (as requested in your other email). See my inline comments below:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:57:46AM +0000, Andrea Palazzi wrote: > the package is already done, it was pretty easy with py2dsc; what i want to > do now is: > - check the created package > - create a git repository > > - add a copyright file: there's no copyright in the original .tar.gz, > the only copyright claim that I've found is at > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quantities; I've asked upstream to add an > explicit copyright file, but had no answer up to today. BTW, can I > write the copyright file only based on the page on python.org Yes you can, there is also one in the attached tarball. Upstream should add an explicit statement nevertheless. > I would also appreciate some help on creating the git repository, I'm > reading http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git but some things aren't > completely clear to me - e.g. will this be a "collab maint project" ? > the project is debian-science ? Or what ? collab-maint should be fine. I'd advise you to use git-buildpackage to handle source import, etc.. If you like, I can also upload the repo that I already have with my packaging draft and you clone it and add yourself as package maintainer. > I think that by the end of this week I could upload a first and > reasonabily good version of the package to alioth. That sounds perfect! If you need a sponsor for the upload I'd be available for that -- just let me know. Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de
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