Hello Jonas (and all) Thanks for your answer and your interest. I am of course ready to actively maintain this package (all the more that I am the upstream also). I have addressed most of your remarks, but I still have some issues and would appreciate your hinsight:
> The two custom Python packaging helpers python-central and > python-support is deprecated. Drop that line from debian/rules and > adjust the control file to use hints suitable for the new python install > helper shipped with python itself on Debian. I have tried to remove the pysupport method, but setup.py is not invoked, and I lack information on how to specify appropriate hints. I read (many times) through * the CDBS doc (examples use pysupport) * the http://wiki.debian.org/Python/Policy (says to use either pycentral or pysupport) * http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ap-packaging_tools.html#s-distutils (the CDBS part is a bit terse, and does not give any configuration examples/information). * the #604718 bug says to specify DEB_PYTHON_SYSTEM=python2, but it fails in current 0.4.93 CDBS saying "leave empty for default python2/python3" * the /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/python-vars.mk file, where a DEB_PYTHON2_MODULE_PACKAGES is specified. But setting it does not invoke setup.py. I only found that setup.py on Debian now has an additional --install-layout=deb but did not figure how to have CDBS properly use it (apart from specifying it explicitly in DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_ARGS_ALL). Could you give me some pointer (doc or up-to-date example package)? > I notice there are binary gettext *.mo files shipped with the upstream > source. It seems that they are only (re)generated from the source files > when the Makefile is invoked, and I suspect that won't happen as part of > the distutils routines. Please ensure that Debian binary packages do > not use binary blobs shipped from upstream, but compile fresh binary > chunks instead. Indeed. I will fix this upstream, but in the meantime (I will not do a relase just for that, so it will take some weeks before appearing), I could invoke po/Makefile in common-build-indep to overwrite shipped files if necessary. Do you think it is appropriate? > Please enable the CDBS utils.mk rule, enable copyright-check and hinted > initially when then compiling, and ensure that debian/copyright > appropriately contains all(!) copyright and licensing info of the source > tarball. E.g. mac/Cillop seems to be from a different project but is > not listed with copyright holders or licensing in the copyright file. > Apparently upstream has a pending item related to this in doc/TODO. Done (that is what took some time...) > Please consider using newest draft of DEP-5. Done. > Instead of debian/docs I suggest to use CDBS variables in debian/rules, > with a wildcard for doc/* and properly listing CHANGES.txt as upstream > changelog file. Done. Have a nice day. Regards, Olivier _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
