Re: Clinica

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Leonardo,

thanks for your work on the Debian packaging of clinica.

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:35:16AM +0100, Leonardo Robol wrote:
> I've tried to assemble the package for clinica (a simple medical records manager).
> I've pushed it in the git repository git.debian.org:/git/debian-med/clinica.git;
> could someone have a look at it?

Done (see below)
 
> After pushing I realized that there is already a thing that I could have mistaken:
> I've set the distribution name to unstable - is that correct or UNRELEASED should be
> set until the package gets really in unstable?

Well, in principle you should use UNRELEASED in this status.  However, I
just uploaded now and thus it is correct to have unstable there.  Here are
some remarks:

 - I made some nitpicking changes to your packaging - nothing worth any
   explanation.  I admit packaging wise this was a pretty good job for a
   newcomer.  I do not remember that somebody needed less than 48h from
   becoming a team member to a finished package which is not absolutely
   trivial.
 - Regarding the Git repository we need to ask our Git experts.  I tried

$ git-buildpackage
dh clean
   dh_testdir
   dh_auto_clean
   dh_clean
./waf --nocache distclean
'distclean' finished successfully (0.004s)
rm -f gschemas.compiled
gbp:info: Orig tarball 'clinica_0.2.1.orig.tar.gz' not found at '../tarballs/'
gbp:warn: Pristine-tar branch "pristine-tar" not found
pristine-tar: no pristine-tar branch found, use "pristine-tar commit" first
gbp:error: /usr/bin/pristine-tar returned 1
gbp:error: Couldn't checkout "clinica_0.2.1.orig.tar.gz"

    ---> So some tagging magic and pristine-tar mimic is left to do.
         I hope somebody might be able to help out here.

   I just copied the debian/ dir and obtained the original tarball via
   uscan - so the package is just uploaded but needs some cleaning in
   the repository.

 - Final remark about the software itself:  For the upload to Debian I
   apply only technical criteria of packaging.  I'm not in a position to
   judge your software itself topic wise.  However, I have the feeling
   that clinica to some extend tries to reimplement functionality which
   is given in GNUmed to a way higher level.  Do you know the GNUmed
   project (see gnumed-client / gnumed-server packages in Debian)?
   Perhaps it would be helpfull for our users to consider some cooperation
   between both projects to make sure we will not spend time into two
   competing projects with the same intention.  I would be very happy if
   this could be a start of the fruitfull discussion and cooperation
   between clinica and GNUmed.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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