On Thursday, October 08 2015, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Sergio,
Hey Andreas, > On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 02:03:49AM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: >> I am finishing packaging SleepyHead >> (<http://sleepyhead.sourceforge.net/wiki/>, ITP on Bug#780060), and >> Andreas kindly suggested that I put the package under the Debian Med >> umbrella (which I obviously accepted). However, before proceeding with >> the Request for Sponsorship I would like to ask a few questions. > > Most of them were answered by Afif - I try to cover the remaining ones. Thanks to both of you, by the way. >> 0) While looking at the git repositories, I found >> <http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/sleepyhead.git/>. I assume >> this means that someone (Ulisses S. Freitas, probably) started an >> attempt to package the software, but apparently never finished it. I > > I checked this out and noticed that this is rather a clone of the > upstream Git and very small changes to our existing packaging template. Yeah; the files under debian/ are all templates and don't really work. >> could not find any message/ITP related to this attempt; > > This might (or might not) be related to my habit also delay an ITP until > I'm really sure I can finish the package. Since chances are low that > several people at the same time are working on the same package I take > the freedom to derive from the usual practice for the simple reason to > avoid ITPs bitrotting inside BTS. Sure thing, no problem about that. There was an RFP for the package (which I then turned into an ITP), that's why I decided to check with you first (in case you have missed the RFP). But I'm glad we've sorted this out. >> is this OK to >> proceed with my (almost complete) efforts? I am copying Ubiratan on >> this message. > >>From my perspective it is OK to drop the old repository since it is > basically a single commit from 1.5 years ago with obviously no further > interest. And I would really remove the old repository since I would > recommend to use the default packaging scheme with pristine-tar due to > the fact that you need to remove files from the upstream tarball. Yeah, great, I was going to propose to recreate the repository from scratch indeed. So here's my next question, then: do I have the necessary rights to do it on git.debian.org? I would assume that only admins are allowed to delete repositories there. (Unfortunately I can't test now because I'm waiting on Alioth to refresh its knowledge about my ssh pubkey). >> 4) This one should probably go to debian-mentors, but I'll take my >> chances here. SleepyHead is shipped with some bundled libraries, which >> I already removed from the compilation process in order to meet our >> policy. However, their files are still in the tree (specifically a >> "jquery.js" file that is causing a lintian error)). I tried using the >> "Files-Excluded:" directive on debian/copyright, without success. I've >> seen that Andreas got involved in the discussions about implementing >> Files-Excluded, so I would like to know: what is the right thing to do >> in this case? My current plan (not implemented yet) is to create a new >> repository with "gbp import-orig" while providing the "--filter=" >> parameter to not import the bundles. Any other suggestion? > > I'd like to stress Afif's suggestion to use Files-Excluded. Absolutely, I'll keep the Files-Excluded there (I wasn't planning to remove it anyway), and I'll manually delete the unnecessary files for now. >> Well, I guess that's it. Thanks for the time and patience. > > You are welcome. Feel free to keep on asking here if not all your > questions might have answered properly. Thanks, much appreciated! -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/
