On 2014-08-12 10:20, Raphaël Jacquot wrote:
Le 12/08/2014 09:31, Michael Olberg a écrit :On 2014-08-12 09:00, Ole Streicher wrote:Hi Michael, I just accepted your request to join debian-astro. Welcome! You write that you already have some experience with packaging, especially gildas. There was an earlier attempt to bring Gildas into Debian [1], but it did not finish.It appears that the last attempt failed due to some uncertainties with the license of gildas. Their homepage still says: "GILDAS is freely available to non-profit institutes on an "as-is" basis. No warranty at all is expressed or implied. We are thinking about going to LGPL." But that copyright notice seems to be dated 23-may-2004! I have also been in contact with the upstream maintainers at IRAM who seemed to be interested in my packaging efforts, but they never got back to me.Good morning, I am one of the resident systems engineer at IPAG (right next door to IRAM) and have people to which I can talk directly about packaging gildas. If you need my help, don't hesitate. Raphael
Thanks Raphael, from IRAM I would like to know if - they have started any packaging activities themselves, and - if they did think about a proper license Apart from that I would have the following questions: 1) on the bugs.debian.org page related to gildas, I find the following text: If you are still interested in packaging gildas, please send a mail to <control@bugs.debian.org> with: retitle 694637 ITP: gildas -- Radioastronomy data analysis software owner 694637 !Is that how I reopen this bug, even when I am not the person who sent the original ITP? If yes, would I send this as the subject line or the body of the email?
2) I am not sure how to write a copyright file when upstream doesn't have a proper copyright notice. I tried to follow the relevant documentation, but lintian keeps complaining... I have tried both free format and machine readable.
3) gildas consists of quite a number of executables which typically end up in a directory which the user needs to add to her path. My package does just that and contains the startup script to set the relevant environment variables. I put everything under /usr/share/gildas/bin. Again, lintian is not very happy about this...
4) Am I obliged to use a pbuilder environment (for testing or unstable?) or can I begin by creating a lintian compliant package in my current Ubuntu and/or LMDE setup?
/Michael