On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:31:06PM +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > Hi all!
Hi, > TRNG (Tina's Random Number Generator) is a very nice C++ parallel > pseudo-random number generator library that I use within my MPICH2 > parallel computer programs on Debian Sid AMD64 on a dual-core > computer. They use Monte Carlo methods, so quality random number > generation is essential. > > I'd like to maintain this very nice library as a Debian package, and > for that I need upload sponsorship. Parallel computing is becoming > more and more commonplace, and this is a very easy-to-use and > high-quality parallel pseudo RNG, and is actively maintained > upstream. > > Some required details: > > 1) Name of source package: trng. It will create the following binary > Debian packages: libtrng4-0, libtrng-dev, libtrng-dbg, libtrng-doc. > The doc-package contains a very comprehensive high-quality 128-page > PDF manual. > > 2) The license is BSD (3-clause) > > 3) Short description: > > Tina's (pseudo) Random Number Generator Library > > 4) Long description (taken from the upstream TRNG description): > > Tina's Random Number Generator Library (TRNG) is a state of > the art C++ pseudo-random number generator library for > sequential and parallel Monte Carlo simulations. Its design > principles are based on a proposal for an extensible random > number generator facility, that will be part of the random > number generator facility of the forthcoming revision of > the C++ standard. > > 5) Can be obtained from: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/trng/ > > and is "lintian clean". > > 6) Upstream URL: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/trng > > 7) PDF manual URL, for those that want to take a peek before > downloading the package: http://trng.berlios.de/trng.pdf Few notes: * debian/control: - The Vcs-* fields are commented. Remove them if you do not use any VCS for maintaining your package. - lintian warns (with -IE --pedantic options): I: trng source: binary-control-field-duplicates-source field "section" in package libtrng4-0 I: trng source: duplicate-short-description libtrng-dev libtrng4-0 libtrng-doc libtrng-dbg * debian/copyright: - Do you really need to license your debian/ work under the GPL-3.0 license? Is (kind of) best practice to license the Debian-related stuff under the same license as upstream. * debian/libtrng-dev.install - Please remove the "usr/lib/*.la" entry. *.la files removal was a Squeeze release goal. * debian/libtrng-doc.install: - Installing documentation/examples is better done using dh_installdocs(1) and dh_installexamples(1). * debian/rules: - The intial comments can be removed. - Your package Build-depends on autotools-dev but is not using it. Add "--with autotools-dev" to the "dh $@" line. - No need to override dh_auto_clean, just add the files you want to clean in the debian/clean file. - Why are you overriding dh_compress? According to Debian Policy, additional documentation should be compressed unless it's small. Let dh_compress decide wheter it is needed or not to compress it. (also, compressed pdf.gz files are supported by most pdf readers, hence there's no reason to not compress it) * debian/libtrng4-0.symbols: - It may be a good idea to add a *.symbols [0] file for the libtrng4-0 package. See dpkg-gensymbols(1) for more info. That's all, but there may be something more that I overlooked. Note that I am not a DD therefore I can't sponsor you package. Cheers [0] http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/ImprovedDpkgShlibdeps -- perl -E'$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
