2013/12/22 Michael Banck <mba...@debian.org>: > Hi, > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 02:55:04PM -0600, Christoph Junghans wrote: >> I finalize found the time to make the first steps to package VOTCA for >> Debian. >> The source/binary builds are available on >> <https://launchpad.net/~ottxor/+archive/votca>. >> >> Please have a look and help me to improve it, so that I can hand it >> over to debichem soon. > > I took a look at votca-tools now (as this is a Build-Depends for > votca-csg and has to be uploaded first). I see the following issues: > > 1. The -dev package is named libvotca-tools2-dev, i.e. includes the > soversion. This is discouraged (but unfortunately the library > maintainer's guide advocated it at least last time I looked), unless a > project is very widely used and switching all programs using it > immediately is not feasable (like for GTK1->GTK2, oder Qt4->Qt5). I > understand that Ubuntu ships it, but I would rather rename it to > libvotca-tools-dev and either let Ubuntu deal with it, or add > compatibility Replaces/Conflicts/Provides for it. Renaming is fine as it has only been released as PPA. So should we just rename the dev package or both?
> > 2. votca-tools ships a convenience copy of boost. Either it needs to be > stripped off the tarball (i.e. the tarball needs to be repackaged), or > the boost license and copyright needs to be added to debian/copyright. VOTCA ships a pristine tarball already: https://votca.googlecode.com/files/votca-tools-1.2.3_pristine.tar.gz and on my PPA, I have used that one to create the debian package. > > Finally, I suggest adding an debian/upstream file with some metadata and > the prime publications, I can do that. Once we have converged, I will add the debian folder to our admin repository. Christoph > > > Michael -- Christoph Junghans Web: http://www.compphys.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cahg27e54wmql-mtczkosja5lpsxxkzew8aibtcucecejaxd...@mail.gmail.com