Hi Jeremy, On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:10:30PM +0200, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > I'm currently working on packaging Veusz under the Debian Python project > (I'm also upstream). Veusz is a GUI 2D and 3D scientific plotting package > and python plotting module. See https://veusz.github.io/ for more details. > > Veusz hasn't been updated in Debian for a long time. I've made a number of > changes to the packaging. It now uses Qt5 and has Python 2 and 3 modules. It > seems a bit tricky to get a new version uploaded.
What exactly is the tricky part here? > Maybe the project is better suited to Debian Science than Debian Python. Is > there someone willing to take a look at it and work towards an upload? I admit I do not really mind in what repository a package resides as long as I have commit permissions. While I have for Python Modules team I do not have for Apps (hmmm strange - but I have no motivation to track this down). This I followed your idea and moved the package to https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/veusz Please check my commits there and read my comments below. > I think the packaging is reasonable. There are now quite a lot of > subpackages, mainly to have both Python 2 and 3 compatibility, to split out > the arch all and arch any, and to not duplicate the shared data between the > two. This could be reduced if we dropped Python 2 packaging, but maybe > someone finds it useful. Please always use gbp import-orig --pristine-tar upstream_tarball_path to update pristine-tar branch. I just did so to easily be able to build the package in the way it is described in Debian Science policy. > It's currently hosted at > https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/applications/veusz/ May be you remove this repository to avoid confusion with the newly created one. > (unfortunately I can't get the tests in the continuous integration working > using Xvfb, but it builds fine for me in pbuilder). You might like to commit your debian/tests dir and let others have a look. Possibly you just need xvfb as Depends in the debian/tests/control file. Its hard to guess how to fix the test if you do not publish your attempt. One issue is worth discussing: You are adding a lot of -dbg packages to Build-Depends. That's something I've never seen and which should be removed if you have no good explanation why this is done. I'd also recommend to drop $ grep "Package.*-dbg" debian/control Package: python-veusz.helpers-dbg Package: python3-veusz.helpers-dbg If you do not add these manually the build process adds *-dbgsym packages automatically. So there is no real point to add this manually. Since I do not know your intention about this I did not patched this and leave this as open question for the sponsering process. Another item to think about: Do we *really* need the packages containing Python 2 modules? If not it seems sensible to simply drop python2-* packages in general since Python2 is end of life. Kind regards and thanks for your work on this Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
