Re: Status of gwyddion
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Tille schrieb am 06.01.2008 18:13 Uhr:
Hi,
Gwyddion is on the Debian-Med imaging todo list (I just added it to
the tasks package) and there is a package on mentors (including 4
month old WNPP bug).
Jan, what is the status of the package? Do you need a sponsor?
The package has in the meantime being uploaded (several times) by
Steffen Moeller. But still not successful. I had quite persistent
problems with rpaths, licenses and so on. But they should be solved now,
and Steffen is (probably) right now trying a new upload...
I has a (very) quick lock and stumbled upon the lintian overrides
which override the warning about missing Python and Ruby
dependencies. Your arguing that you have a python | ruby | perl
dependency sounds a little bit weak. I would personally depends from
all of the interpreting languages if the user might need them for
whatever purpose.
hmm, that is actually one of points I dislike most myself... On the
other hand, I don't want to depend all three languages, that would draw
in a lot of packages, which are (at the moment) quite useless, as there
are no actual plugins packaged/available. Additionally, the whole
plugin-thing will be discontinued ASAP, according to upstream, so I have
the whole gwyddion-plugins package only for completeness. But if you
feel strongly, that this is a really bad way, than I will of course
change it. I'm still quite a newbie in Debian packaging...
If you need a sponsor and we have found one in the Debian-Med crew we
should discuss this in detail.
As I wrote above, I'm already keeping Steffen busy... ;-) So, we
probably should take the discussion right now...
Moreover I would like to ask you about your opinion about group
maintainance in the Debian-Med team. This would mean that the
Maintainer is set to Debian-Med Packaging Team
<debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org> and the packaging
stuff will be put into Debian-Med SVN.
gwyddion is actually already in the SVN... ;-)
I did not yet change the maintainer, as I don't know, if there is
interest from some others to work on one more piece of software, which
is quite at the edge of your main interests. But again, if there is
interest, I can change this, too...
Kind regards and thanks for your work on Gwyddion
Many thanks for asking!
And, of course: feel free to look for quirks in the packaging, if you
like! I am very thankful for any hints, improving the packaging! (And if
it saves a further REJECT and following new upload, than Steffen will
probably be equally happy... ;-) )
Have a nice evening,
Jan
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