Bug#823693: ITP: asciiquarium -- Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

2016-05-08 Thread Niklas Sombert 

Ben Finney wrote:

Niklas Sombert  writes:

  Description : Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of 
your own terminal!


Please re-write the description to conform with Debian Policy §3.4 and
Developer's Reference §6.2.

In particular, the synopsis should not be a sentence. Instead it should
be a noun phrase stating what the package installs, as characterised in
Policy §3.4.1 and Developer's Reference §6.2.2.

This bug report doesn't appear to have the proposed long description 
for

the package; please write one (as per the above documentation) and put
it in this bug report.


Then I would change the description to:

Description: displays an aquarium with ASCII art
 This program simulates an aquarium with fish and various other things
 and displays it using ASCII art on a terminal.

  - Niklas

Bug#823693: ITP: asciiquarium -- Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

2016-05-07 Thread Ben Finney 
Niklas Sombert  writes:

>   Description : Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your 
> own terminal!

Please re-write the description to conform with Debian Policy §3.4 and
Developer's Reference §6.2.

In particular, the synopsis should not be a sentence. Instead it should
be a noun phrase stating what the package installs, as characterised in
Policy §3.4.1 and Developer's Reference §6.2.2.

This bug report doesn't appear to have the proposed long description for
the package; please write one (as per the above documentation) and put
it in this bug report.

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Ben Finney

Bug#823693: ITP: asciiquarium -- Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

2016-05-07 Thread gregor herrmann 
On Sat, 07 May 2016 22:13:55 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:

> One problem: it depends on Term::Animation, which isn't packaged in Debian
> yet.  I heard that our Perl team have a tool to do the entirety of packaging
> of CPAN modules with a single command, but I don't know the details.  And,
> this looks like an issue: "License: unknown".

I guess you mean the "License: unknown" in the left column of
https://metacpan.org/release/Term-Animation ? That just means that
metacpan failed to automatically extract the license (probably
because it's not mentioned in META.yml or META.json).

Looking at the tarball [0], the license is clear and free in the
README [1]:

#v+
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2003 Kirk Baucom L

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
#v-

So that's, as very common for Perl modules, "License: Artistic or GPL-1+".
No need to double-check with the author :)


(Usual sales pitch: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/Welcome )

Cheers,
gregor


[0] https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/K/KB/KBAUCOM/Term-Animation-2.6.tar.gz
[1] also online: https://metacpan.org/source/KBAUCOM/Term-Animation-2.6/README

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Bug#823693: ITP: asciiquarium -- Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

2016-05-07 Thread Adam Borowski 
On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 10:19:27PM +0200, Niklas Sombert wrote:
> Adam Borowski  wrote:
> > > One problem: it depends on Term::Animation, which isn't packaged in
> > Debian yet.  I heard that our Perl team have a tool to do the entirety
> > of packaging of CPAN modules with a single command, but I don't know the
> > details.
> 
> Yes, I've heard about dh-make-perl. It's very good!
> In fact, I've built those packages already: 
> https://launchpad.net/~ytvwld/+archive/ubuntu/asciiquarium/+packages

Cool!  If you have already done this, there are no _technical_ reasons
against inclusion -- on a "slow scroll"-level review, the code seems sound. 
People may complain against archive bloat but this package compares
favourably to, eg, nyancat (2×arch:all vs 2×arch:any).

> > And, this looks like an issue: "License: unknown".
> 
> Yeah, that's a big issue. Perhaps I could try contacting the author?

Right.

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Bug#823693: ITP: asciiquarium -- Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

2016-05-07 Thread Niklas Sombert 
Adam Borowski  wrote:

> One problem: it depends on Term::Animation, which isn't packaged in
> Debian
> yet.  I heard that our Perl team have a tool to do the entirety of
> packaging
> of CPAN modules with a single command, but I don't know the details. 

Yes, I've heard about dh-make-perl. It's very good!
In fact, I've built those packages already: 
https://launchpad.net/~ytvwld/+archive/ubuntu/asciiquarium/+packages

> And, this looks like an issue: "License: unknown".

Yeah, that's a big issue. Perhaps I could try contacting the author?

 - Niklas

Bug#823693: ITP: asciiquarium -- Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

2016-05-07 Thread Adam Borowski 
On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 08:57:03PM +0200, Niklas Sombert wrote:
> * Package name: asciiquarium
> * URL : http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/html/
> * License : GPL2
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description : Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own
> terminal!
> 
> This is a simulation of an aquarium  with ASCII art in a terminal.
> 
> It it not very useful but I find it enjoyable - it'a a nice gimmick.
> KDE Plasma used to include a screensaver which looked similar.

One problem: it depends on Term::Animation, which isn't packaged in Debian
yet.  I heard that our Perl team have a tool to do the entirety of packaging
of CPAN modules with a single command, but I don't know the details.  And,
this looks like an issue: "License: unknown".

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How to exploit the Bible for weight loss:
Pr28:25: he that putteth his trust in the ʟᴏʀᴅ shall be made fat.

Bug#823693: ITP: asciiquarium -- Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

2016-05-07 Thread Niklas Sombert 
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Niklas Sombert 

* Package name: asciiquarium
  Version : 1.1
  Upstream Author : Kirk Baucom 
* URL : http://www.robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/html/
* License : GPL2
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own
terminal!

This is a simulation of an aquarium  with ASCII art in a terminal.

It it not very useful but I find it enjoyable - it'a a nice gimmick.
KDE Plasma used to include a screensaver which looked similar.

This is my first package for Debian
 - it would be nice if I could get a sponsor.

  - Niklas