Hi, On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:07:24PM +0100, Andreas Moll wrote: > again, there a new improved package version available.
I saw this thread now; I tried to package BALL and BALLView for Debichem a while ago (because WOW the screenshots look great) and took another shot at it today before seeing your ITP. I got a few comments on the package (the latest one on mentors.d.n): * tetex-* got retired in Debian, texlive and texlive-latex-extra should get added as Build-Depends. However, that still didn't do it for me, it failed on fancyheadings.sty, and this doesn't appear to be in any package right now. Maybe we will have to do without fancy headings for now. * Where do you have the 1.2 tarball from? The official release seems to be 1.1.1, and development releases seems to be "1.2 pre 04.07". * You should make clear in debian/copyright which parts of the upstream tarball you removed (as I understand it, you repackaged it). * Can you convince upstream that CF_VERSION_CHECK is maybe not needed? You work around it by touching config.lic, which doesn't look very nice either (if that code wasn't written by upstream, anyway). As BALL is LGPL, I see no reason to bother the user with a "Yes, I agree" kind of stuff similar to Windows EULAs. * The way you not just rename upstream's debian/ to debian-upstream/, but extensively use it in debian/rules looks very dubious to me; e.g. debian-upstream/createBALLVIEWDEB looks very un-debianish to me. I really suggest you just ignore debian-upstream; I very much doubt it would pass the ftp-master checks for entering the Debian archive as well. * Priority: in debian/control should be `optional' not `extra' I think. * What about the rest of BALL? Will you package it eventually? I'd be interested in them, but haven't taken a closer look. You said in an earlier mail that there are too many configure options for it, but unless there are many conflicting ones, there's lots of precedent in Debian - we just turn on the most useful options, and if users request further options, that can be thought about as well. That's it for now, it's getting late :) Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
