Hi Andreas, Quick update on this:
- I have provided the upstream source tarball for v0.5.0, - I have dropped the idea of packaging for Ubuntu for now, so I am now on Debhelper and compat v9, - The package is now lintian-free. Cheers, Ghislain 2014-03-17 12:14 GMT+00:00 Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu>: > Hi Ghislain, > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 09:11:12PM +0000, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 21:04 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I would like to sponsor ismrmrd but there are some issues with the > > > packaging. > > > > > Thank you for stepping-up again to mentor one of my packages. > > Sure, that's fine. I was aware of some "rush" of sponsees when I > started SoB. :-) > > > > 1. The pristine-tar branch is missing. Please use > > > git import-orig --pristine-tar <origtarball> > > > as it is explained in the team policy > > > > > The source distribution is a zip file that certainly needs a repack to a > > suitable tarball format. I have been doing it manually so far. > > Well, but finally you *have* created some orig.tar.gz which is the basis > of your packaging. Specifically if you can not use the download from > upstream you should inject this into Git to make sure we will use the > very same tarball. > > > > 2. Please set the Science team mailing list as Maintainer and > > > yourself as Uploader (as explained in team policy) > > > > > Done > > OK. > > > > 3. If you have good reasons to stick to debhelper compat > > > level 8 please mention them in debian/README.source > > > otherwise please use level 9 > > Reason is that I tested the package on Ubuntu LTS before (personal PPA), > > where setting debhelper to v9 was not possible. > > > > > > The ultimate goal is to have the package accepted in Debian, but > > upstream would also like to support the current Ubuntu LTS. I wanted to > > avoid duplicating my packaging effort, hence some of the choices above. > > If you can suggest better pieces of advice regarding this issue, I'd be > > keen on hearing from them. > > Well, this is somehow a reason. I was not aware that Ubuntu LTS is > lagging behind that much. I do not want to spoil your final target but > in this case you should make sure manually that the test suite will be > run in the build process. In my eyes this is the most important feature > of debhelper compat 9 and I do not really care about the version number > but the functionality of running a test if it is available. So I would > like you to > > 1. Put the paragraph above as explanation for using debhelper 8 in > debian/README.source (just to make sure that we will not forget > and also put the exact LTS version in since the next LTS version > will surely have debhelper 9) > > 2. Make sure the test suite will be run successfully in the build > process. > > BTW, when speaking about the test suite: An autopkgtest control file > would be also a very welcome feature. I think if we are talking about > science we should test our packages as best as possible. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >
