Hi Jan, I am basically off for the next two weeks but volunteer to sponsor you when I return at the end of this month - should you not have found someone else. Please consider to join the Debian-Med folks at http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-med/ there may be someone available earlier than me. Cheers, Steffen On Tuesday 18 September 2007 14:11:02 Jan Beyer wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gwyddion". > > * Package name : gwyddion > Version : 2.8-1 > Upstream Authors: David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti@gwyddion.net>, Petr Klapetek > <klapetek@gwyddion.net> and more > * URL : http://gwyddion.net/ > * License : GPL-v2+, and parts PD > Section : science > > It builds these binary packages: > gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) analysis software > Gwyddion is a modular program for Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) > data visualization and analysis. It is primarily intended for > analysis of height field obtained by SPM techniques like AFM, MFM, > STM, SNOM/NSOM etc. It can, however, be used for any other height > field and image analysis. > gwyddion-common - Gwyddion SPM analysis software - common files > gwyddion-plugins - Gwyddion SPM analysis software - plugins > libgwyddion2-0 - Gwyddion SPM analysis software - libraries > libgwyddion20-dev - Gwyddion SPM analysis software - header files and > static libraries > libgwyddion20-doc - Gwyddion SPM analysis software - HTML library API > documentation > > The lintian errors are taken care of by an override file[1]. The package > seems to be pbuilder clean. The piuparts (-d sid) output shows some error, > which may be unrelated to gwyddion[2]. You may find a discussion of the > original RFS in the mailing list archive[3]. > > ITP: 440662 > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gwyddion > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main > contrib non-free > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gwyddion/gwyddion_2.8-1.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > > Kind regards > Jan Beyer > > > Annotations: > [1] The errors are about some python/ruby scripts, which are in the > gwyddion package, which does not depend on the interpreters. This is due to > the fact, that the package shall only provide some basic guaranteed > infrastructure for plugins, which users may want to use/write. But Gwyddion > itself does not use/need the interpreters. > The same lintian message is emitted for the gwyddion-plugins package. There > I added the Depends: python | perl | ruby line, which lintian doesn't seem > to understand. > Furthermore there is a lintian warning, concerning the libgwyddion2-0 > package, which is actually a bundle of libraries. These cannot usefully be > split into single-library packages, as the libraries themselves are not > well split with regard to their functions/symbols (according to upstream), > so nobody will want to link against only one of them. > > [2] Piuparts (-d sid) brings up some broken symlinks in > /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D and related to pico. But as gwyddion has > nothing to do with this, it may be, that this is unrelated to gwyddion. > piuparts -d etch runs fine. > > [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/09/msg00161.html > No sponsor was found there. I fixed the dependency problem. Now gwyddion > Depends: libgwyddion2-0 (>= 2.8-1). > > Thank you very much for reading until here!
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