Hello Andreas, Nicely constructed description within your last couple of emails, thank you!
Just to clarify before I push: within my current workspace, two deb packages are generated: the origin mindthegap and the new mindthegap-examples. The main mindthegap package now recommends mindthegap-examples. I have excluded file repetitions within both packages so we do not overlap, so I have simply swapped some files in favour of the example package. This does not affect autopkgtest. Within the example package, I have *cherrypicked* to include the scripts directory within /usr/share/mindthegap/test as this contains our python dataset generation scripts that generally should not have any influence to anything within mindthegap as it is not used within the project scope and is there for manual user invocation. I have also thrown in the jenkins folder as by looking over the script files, they seem interesting enough to be classed as an example. Should these files be located within /usr/share/doc/mindthegap or /usr/share/doc/mindthegap-examples? > Sometimes I use the name PACKAGE-data but in this case this > might be misleading since there are other data which most probably are > needed to run mindthegap and are not just optional. I agree. The data folder is occupied by sample data generated by the python files by upstream which is used within the test scripts, which are invoked via autopkgtest. Now, a quick question. As these are basically static files that are good as references, should the mindthegap-examples package do anything else rather than simply act as an optional addition/split from mindthegap itself. It shouldn't need any form of compilation. At least, not within python as that is interpreter-based and python3 as a dep should be good enough? Additionally, I have also eliminated more lintian outputs so things are beginning to seem a lot cleaner. How should "new-package-should-close-itp-bug" be handled / possibly rectified? I will review over the recent emails transacted by you so I can see if I have missed out anything - hopefully I haven't as I have the slight tendancy of skimming over things :-). I will again push everything as soon as possible. Thanks for your assistance, Shayan Doust
