(No need to CC me) On 14/08/10 17:03, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:43 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> On 13/08/10 14:12, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> >>> Now that there is a separate thread on cdbs vs dh, perhaps someone could >>> give me some feedback on my pd-motex package which happens to use dh. >>> I'm ready to fix whatever needs fixing. > > First off, thanks for the feedback, quite useful! I've also applied > these changes to the other packages I ITP'ed. > >> THe changelog mentions that it is a non-maintainer upload. That is >> certainly an error. > > Removed.
The version number is still incorrect (x.y debian revisions are used for NMUs). > >> Make sure that the names in debian/control and >> debian/changelog are byte-for-byte identical. > > They were as far as I could tell, did you see a difference? No, but usually dch uses the NMU template when the names differ. > >> The short description should give an indication of what the externals do. > > Some of these old Pd libraries are random grabbags of things that are > just collections created by the same author. OK. But the new description now in place is better. >> The example should go into /usr/share/doc/pd-motex/examples. > > The 'examples' folder is part of the standard library format for Pd > libraries, so it needs to be in the library. A .pd file is something > like a .svg or a .ps: it is a text file, but its not human > readable/editable in a useful way. Really a .pd file is more like a > binary like .elc or .pyc than a text file. So I am not sure it is so > useful in the /usr/share/doc/pd-motex/examples directory. > > Also, Pd users will expect the examples to show up in the Pd library > browser. Do you think it would be useful to > make /usr/share/doc/pd-motex/examples a link to the examples in the > library folder? Where is that library browser? I can't find such a thing in my installed copy of pd (debian's). > >> Similar to the discussion on pd-zexy, is something needed to use motex? >> If so, you should document that in README.Debian. > > The instructions in pd-zexy/README.Debian are not Debian-specific and > nothing about the Debian packages require users to load libraries > differently than on other platforms. IMHO, Pd users are better off > using the official Pd docs on how to load libraries rather than > maintaining many different README files for each library that can easily > get out of date. So, maybe the pd-zexy README should be removed? I'm not a pd expert, but if I install some extensions, I expect to be able to use them right away, without having to invoke pd with special args. I'm getting the impression that we are not living up to that expectation. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
