Hi Wolfgang, 2014-08-13 17:36 GMT+02:00 Wolfgang Fütterer <[email protected]>: > > Dear Debian science team, > > I'm using Debian now for several years and I also have packaged some programs > for myself in a private repository. > > Finally i decided to leave my passivity and supporting debian in a more active > way.
That is great! Welcome on board. > I want to help out packaging parmetis as a start. > > What I have done so far: > > - checkout the svn-repository of parmetis > - imported it into git (I prefer git over svn) > - build the package in a chroot for amd64 and i386 from my experience it is enough to build on just one of those. > - Added a symbol file for libparmetis4 to get rid of the lintian warning > - There is still one lintian warning about hardening, which I don't know how > to resolve It means, you should feed to the compiler the flags, which are "highly recommended" for all debian packages. Usually the build-system takes it silently from the environment. But this warning can be also false-positive. Please, push your changes to VCS and then we can discuss it further. > I have already registered on Alioth. My Alioth account is wlfuetter-guest, and > I have just sent a request to join. > > I read most of the documentation given here: https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging > and here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience. > > But now I'm a little stuck. How should I proceed further? Let`s wait for somebody, who can activate your account there. > And another question: > Is it ok to switch to git for parmetis or should I use svn instead? We should ask Sylvestre, he was the last, who uploaded parmetis. I personally prefer git. But it would be good to move the svn-history into git. It would be also good to ask parmetis-upstream to change their license, like they did it for metis. Now metis is available in main Debian archive, but parmetis is still in non-free section because of restriction in their license. Best regards Anton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/calf6qjnn4mmpiy6bjzgwsr-rosmjtaeyx53sv+4ceo+qopr...@mail.gmail.com
