On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:07:39AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Thanks ! I'll update my other packages, I keep spreading this mistake > over and over.
:-) Me too in the past. I'm fixing those step by step. > > Please document the rationale in README.source why you can not use the > > Debian packaged cableswig. > > Updated. Basically the build system would try to retrieve the latest > version of cableswig from the CVS. > Since cableswig is going to be deprecated in ITKv4 (and because > cableswig does not provide library), one has to download cableswig > locally to build mummy (statically linked). Just mention it in README.source. It just needs to be documented. Even if I admit I do not understand all this because I personally never dealt with all this stuff - but knowledged people would make some sense out of it I guess. > > In general I would try to contact upstream whether they might be able to > > provide something like a downloadable tarball or at least a web page > > which mentiones the latest upstream version (and the according tag in > > git) to enable us to write a proper watch file. I'm quite keen on > > having a watch file for any of our packages to enable us to catch up > > with upstream. > > ActiViz.NET is quite old. It has been around for years, but it has > been open-sourced only a few weeks ago. I really hope they'll polish > the website as they did already for > VTK,ITK,paraview,cmake,cdash,batchmake,gccxml,igstk,vtkedge... Perhaps hoping is not enough - just explaining the reason why it makes sense if we were able to write a proper watch file to always get the latest and greatest of their software straight into Debian might be better than hoping. It is a good idea to have some good relation with our upstreams which starts with proper communication. > > The last issue is the copyright file. Please use the DEP5 format as > > described in > > > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#index7h1 > > Sorry about that. I was simply using the generated file from dh_make. I did not used dh_make since a long time. Perhaps somebody should check whether the latest dh_make regards DEP5 instead of missleading packagers all the time. If not writing a bug report (wishlist or minor) would make perfectly sense. > This should be all fixed now. I'll have a look later today or tomorrow. Thanks for your work on this Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
