Re: Raster3D (and gff2aplot too)
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
BTW, a README.Debian on raster3d and another one on raster3d-doc. Is it
allowed?
Sure it is. To simple answers:
1. Why should debhelper support something that is not allowed?
2. Every single package can have it's own README.Debian.
About imagemagick:
It works OK with imagemagick present on testing and unstable (they are
the same version). I put it as recommends, since the main program from
Raster3D doesn't needs imagemagick.
The same for ghostscript. A recommends to gs-gpl (since gs is a dummy
package to gs-gpl). GS is only needed by two scripts, that aren't the
"core" of Raster3D.
I think I have answered to this last week but I had some mail trouble
and thus I can not verify. Just in case once again:
Every single piece of software in your package has to work. If there
is something in your package which needs imagemagick or gs-gpl include
a dependency (why not - these packages will be installed on most machines
dealing with graphics stuff anyway so it is cheap). If there are real
reasons to keep these packages outside of some boxes you have to
split the "non-core" parts out of your main package into raster3d-extra
or whatever and make this dependand from the dependencies they need
(please use also versioned dependencies on ImageMagick!).
raster3-doc also has a recommends on raster3d since to run the examples,
the user will need the programs from raster3d package.
This is OK.
I have patched upstream BUGS file, to (I think) the really important parts.
Fine,
/usr/share/doc-base/raster3d
You should list the PDF file in addition
Also done.
Fine,
Yes. I was in doubt about that.
Asked on #debian-devel and #debian-mentors. Nobody answered... :-/
Shame on them. ;-)
Then I download some packages source that were split in <package> and
<package>-doc.
They were installing all the documents under /usr/share/doc/package-doc
Because that I installed on the same way. I don't remember the name of
the packages, but I saw it on two packages.
Just keep it as it is. It is more a personal feeling than a technical issue.
I created a link index.html -> raster3d.html, so people that are already
familiar with the webpages could open raster3d.html and new people will
see the index.html. I think this could help.
It was my intention to lead you to this decision. ;-)
Well... I think that you are already getting angry with me! :-)
Far from that - I think you are doing a good job.
I hope that there is no more mistake on the packages.
Please find a reasonable solution for the Dependency issue (either make a
Depends or split up what needs the Dependency to an extra package).
And, finally, could you upload a new revision of the gff2aplot package?
I corrected some small things on the package (nothing important).
http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/med/gff2aplot/
Done.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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