Kevin, Today is your lucky day. I addressed all of your bullet points along with a fun bonus. The new revision (1~pre7) is at [1]. I now think that 1~pre7 is ready for experimental after a revision change to 1.
So you know, the orig.tar.gz has changed in this revision. I untarred it, ran ./configure && make distclean to get rid of some files, and tarred it back up. On Thursday 29 March 2007 18:19, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > 1) I see you've decided to use the pre-built PDF / PS documentation > files shipped in upstream's orig.tar.gz, and so commented out the > debian/rules clean target. There's nothing wrong with that, as has > previously been mentioned on this list, since we know these docs can be > rebuilt from the source package. > > However, because you're doing this, it could be worthwhile to remove the > build-dependencies on texinfo and texlive-latex-base | tetex-bin from > debian/control. They currently don't do anything except cause an awful > lot of packages to be downloaded by pbuilder or sbuild, which increases > the build time. With this new revision I am building the docs. I just need to remember to run ./configure && make distclean on the upstream tarball and tar the result for the orig.tar.gz. I guess I'll just throw a small shell script that does this preparation of the upstream tarball into the debian directory unless there is a more formal way to do the tarball prep. > 2) I also have just noticed that upstream's build outputs a message > recommending to do a "make check" to test the binaries / libraries. Is > this something that would be reasonably easy to put into the Debian build? CDBS makes this a one-liner. I have added it. > 3) [of course you know this, I'm leaving it here as a placeholder to > remind myself]: the possibility to move the docs from libnetcdf-dev into > an arch:all binary package. I have the netcdf-doc package in this revision. I moved the docs from libnetcdf-dev as well as the html docs into this package. Please check it out. The fun bonus is that I added netcdf-dbg. It is a package that includes all the debugging symbols for all the packages built from this netcdf source package. [1]http://www.penguintechs.org/~wt/debian/netcdf/ wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science
