On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 16:24 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > I think this is actually a *related* note. Does this > "unsuccessful so > > > far" mean upstream has a problem to integrate the changes or did > not yet > > > released a version which does contain the changes? Its Debian > policy do > > > use the packaged version of libraries if at all possible (=you > should > > > try hard to make it possible). > > > > "Unsuccessful so far" means I have sent patches to yaml-cpp almost a > > year ago (Feb 2014), but they haven't been integrated yet. The > upstream > > author seems busy, as there hasn't been a new release of yaml-cpp > since > > April 2013. I will continue to pester though. :-) > > I have not yet tested this approach and your mileage may vary but you > might like to send the patches in a wishlist bug report to the Debian > package. On one hand it might solve your current build problem very > easily and on the other hand it might convince upstream if a major > distribution has the patches.
Upstream yaml-cpp just merged the patches, and it sounds like they will release a new version in the next week or so. So, fingers crossed, I can remove yaml-cpp from OpenSurgSim source and add it as a build-depends as you requested. Should I get in touch with the maintainer of Debian yaml-cpp to see if I can help getting the new version packaged? Also, there are a couple of more packaging questions: - The policy mentions adding "Testsuite" field to the debian/control file. OpenSurgSim uses CTest to run our Google Test unit tests. The tests seems to be running correctly during the build. But, what do I need to put in this field? - README.test and README.source, I am a little confused as to what goes here. Is there an example I can look at? - debian/upstream (or debian/upstream/metadata). I would like to add this as well. Again, do you know of a good example I can follow? Thanks, -Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
