Re: What is the process for creating/uploading new packages?
Hi, Giovanni and Eric,
Thank you very much for the suggestions, it is inspiring to see how
much support any Haskell-related community always provides.
I will fix the package today or tomorrow according to your notes.
2010/12/23 Giovanni Mascellani <gio@debian.org>:
> Hi Eugene.
>
> Welcome to the Debian world! :-)
>
> On 22/12/2010 17:47, Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I've uploaded my first debian package to debian mentors:
>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/haskell-strptime
>>
>> Looks like now I understand how it is done at least for libraries
>> (though I'd appreciate if someone criticized the packaging) and I
>> could also package the other dependencies for my apps.
>
> While your package seems to build correctly and produce a usable
> package, there are some issues in it that make it totally unsuitable for
> Debian at the moment. Don't worry, all of these issues can be addressed
> and are not particularly difficult! :-)
>
> This is a first list of things, as they come in my mind.
>
> * debian/control: first of all, descriptions are clearly incomplete;
> while the first line is mostly ok, the extended description doesn't give
> any information about what does the package do. In Debian the
> description "should describe the package (the program) to a user (system
> administrator) who has never met it before so that they have enough
> information to decide whether they want to install it"[1]. Please, read
> this link carefully and rephrase the description to make it more
> informative. Moreover, as Erik pointed out, there's no need to separate
> the first line from the extended description with an empty line.
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-descriptions
>
> * debian/control: build dependencies seem to be insufficient; you
> should at least add ghc6-doc, which is needed to build the -doc package;
> it should go in Build-Depends-Indep, because it is needed just for
> architecture-independent binary packages. See [2] for more information.
>
> [2]
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
>
> * debian/control: commented lines could be removed, there's no need to
> keep them around; anyway, once you move your package into the darcs
> repository, you should add the Vcs-Darcs and Vcs-Browser fields to
> document this fact.
>
> * debian/control: you should add the "Recommends:
> ${haskell:Recommends}" line to all the binary packages.
>
> * debian/copyright: this file is not formatted according to the DEP 5
> specification[3]. Please, read the link and fix the file. More
> specifically, you're missing the "Files" field. Moreover, there are two
> files (hstrptime.c and hstrptime.h) which are GPL-licensed and have
> different copyright holders. The licenses are compatible, but the
> copyright file must contain true information! :-)
>
> [3] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
>
> * debian/copyright: you should also split long lines, use dots (".") to
> mark empty lines that shouldn't break a field and replace something
> relevant on the marker "<ORGANIZATION>".
>
> * debian/patches/*: you should remove the patch present in your
> package; probably it fell there by mistake, but it just contains a copy
> of the content of the original tarball.
>
>> What should I do now? :) Should it somehow get to
>> darcs.debian.org/pkg-haskell? Should I notify someone? etc.
>
> Once the package is ready and clean, a Debian Developer (like me, or ay
> other DD that reads this list) can upload it to the main Debian archive.
> The package must wait some time in the NEW queue before it gets accepted
> by FTP masters (the people responsible for the management of the Debian
> archive); once it's accepted, your first package will be officially in
> Debian.
>
> In the meantime, I suggest you to maintain your package in the darcs
> repository of our team. You should subscribe on alioth.debian.org and
> request to join the project pkg-haskell. See [4,5] for information.
>
> [4] http://wiki.debian.org/Haskell
> [5] http://wiki.debian.org/Haskell/CollabMaint/DarcsBasic
>
> Remember to check into darcs only the debian/ directory! :-) Have a look
> to other packages to know how things work and ask here if you have any
> troubles.
>
> Cheers and merry Christmas (for those of you who live in countries where
> this time is special!). :-)
>
> Giovanni.
> --
> Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it>
> Pisa, Italy
>
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>
>
--
Eugene Kirpichov
Senior Software Engineer,
Grid Dynamics http://www.griddynamics.com/
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