Re: Bug#745609: RFS: eso-midas/13.09pl1.2-1 [ITP] -- European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System

[Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de>]

On Freitag 25 Apr 2014 14:03:40 Ole Streicher wrote:
[..]
> On 24.04.2014 19:44, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
[..]
> > Most important
> > 
> >   install/unix/systems/Linux_alpha/README.linux
> > 
> > tells that midas is only for non-commercial usage.

Hi Ole,

Did upstream remove this file?   AFAIU if you remove it, and then declare
it DSFG free, that's not the correct procedure ;-)


I tried a source build on latest kubuntu 14.04 and it build successfully.
What I noticed is:

Now running lintian...
E: eso-midas changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable
W: eso-midas: script-not-executable usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/install/unix/systems/A-UX/util/f77
W: eso-midas: script-not-executable usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/install/unix/systems/Debian/make_shared
W: eso-midas: script-not-executable usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/test/prim/midasparallel
W: eso-midas: script-not-executable usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/test/prim/midcheck
W: eso-midas: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/test/prim/verify17.prg
W: eso-midas: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/test/prim/badfitskeys.mt
N: 3 tags overridden (1 error, 1 warning, 1 info)

Most of (or maybe even all?) the stuff below eso-midas/13SEP/test/ and eso-midas/13SEP/install/ is
not required and should therefore not be in the .deb, right?  (Maybe a run make check target
during build?)

As the system readline is used, those file should not be installed:

$ dpkg --contents ../eso-midas_13.09pl1.2+dfsg-1_amd64.deb | grep readline
-rw-r--r-- root/root      9972 2014-05-13 16:01 ./usr/share/man/man3/readline.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     30472 2013-11-09 11:15 ./usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/system/unix/man1/readline.1
-rw-r--r-- root/root     30472 2013-11-09 11:15 ./usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/system/unix/manl/readline.l


Doublicate files:

$ dpkg --contents ../eso-midas_13.09pl1.2+dfsg-1_amd64.deb | grep man[1-9]
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-05-13 16:01 ./usr/share/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1862 2014-05-13 16:01 ./usr/share/man/man1/inmidas.1L.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1023 2014-05-13 16:01 ./usr/share/man/man1/helpmidas.1L.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root       787 2014-05-13 16:01 ./usr/share/man/man1/gomidas.1L.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-05-13 16:01 ./usr/share/man/man3/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      9972 2014-05-13 16:01 ./usr/share/man/man3/readline.3.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2014-05-13 16:01 ./usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/system/unix/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1533 2013-11-09 11:15 ./usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/system/unix/man1/gomidas.1
-rw-r--r-- root/root     30472 2013-11-09 11:15 ./usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/system/unix/man1/readline.1
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2077 2013-11-09 11:15 ./usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/system/unix/man1/helpmidas.1
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4290 2013-11-09 11:15 ./usr/lib/eso-midas/13SEP/system/unix/man1/inmidas.1

Searching /usr/share/man/man1/*[^19].gz  shows that extentions are ssl, x, p (for
perl) ...  and  L for local install makes no sense IMHO for a .deb pkg. As
inmidas helpmidas and gomidas are pretty unique names, I would suggest to
replace .1L extention of the manpages with just .1


Thx for pkging midas,
Achim



> > You should get a statement from upstream that this is no longer valid
> > and add a comment to debian/copyright (or better let upstream remove
> > that file).

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