Re: trunk/packages/swarm/trunk/debian
Hi Scott,
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:47:59PM -0600, Scott Christley wrote:
> > However, I'd expect to throw configure a proper return code if this
> > would be critical.
>
> Actually it is critical, so configure must not be throwing a return code that signals the build has failed.
>
> I used override_dh_autoconf to specify additional parameters to configure, pointers to tcl and tk and turn off java for the moment.
OK.
> > Further hint: Please make yourself comfortable with dh-autoreconf. I
> > recently used it in the package exonerate to make sure automake stuff
> > will be handled properly and easily.
>
> That sounds nice but how do you make sure that the proper versions of autoconf, automake, libtool, etc. are used? This can cause a bit of trouble with Swarm because we have noticed that these tools are not necessarily backwards-compatible, using newer versions tends to break the configure scripts.
I have not heard about this "tendency". I'd say: Just try as in those
other packages and see if it works.
> > Last hint: The packaging is lacking a debian/copyright file. Please use
> > DEP5 format[1] - we have several examples in Debian Med SVN to
> > shamelessly copy and paste from.
>
> Created!
Fine.
> > Have you read about my MOM announcement in the last mail to the Debian
> > Med list? Want to become a MOM student?
>
> I am a perpetual student :-D
I'm not sure whether this is a "yes, please add me to the MoM queue" but
I just did so at[1]. I feel just occupied anyway (first comes first
served). This does not mean I will not try to check and help (and there
are also others in the team). So lets see how far we might have went
with swarm until February.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM
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