Re: new software ready for inspection: situs
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 03:20:47PM +0200, Mickaël Canévet wrote:
> >
> > src/ - this seems to contain the real source of situs
>
> yep, and the only one Makefile
>
> > fftw/ - seems to be a convinience copy of fftw library - we
> > should make sure that for the package build the Debian
> > packaged library will be used
>
> I patched the Makefile to build and link towards with Debian fftw.
Fine.
> > bin/ - binary executables - something we do not really need
> > in the repository except if it is by chance contained
> > in the upstream tarball - but it would be better to advise
> > upstream not to include it
> >
>
> It's included in the upstream tarball.
We might need to talk to the author anyway (see below). I'm tempted to
repack the upstream source in cause the author might insist in keeping
these because carrying an extra 3MB of non-usable stuff does not make
any sense.
> > After having visited the situs homepage and trying to download the
> > source I ended up with some download page[3]. This seems to be the
> > first hurdle to discuss with upstream. I know that there might be
> > reasons for them to control the number of downloads but this on one hand
> > disables our tools to reasonably detect new version numbers on the other
> > hand a packaging for Debian means that the source tarball will be
> > available on a different place than theirs and we should at least
> > explain this fact to them to be friendly (even if their license is GPL
> > and would in principle enable us doing this).
>
> I have a direct link on the page providing the download, but I suppose
> the author does not want us to bypass his form page (even if the direct
> link might be index by google and friends).
We need to tell the author that in case we upload the package to the
Debian mirrors anybody can download the source from there so we do open
a really large bypass for anybody. And as I said - we really want to
write a watch file to track new versions. Perhaps we could argue that
the author might get our popcon results for the package users as an
replacement for his own statistics.
> > So what do you think about MoM to create a proper debian/ dir and
> > build a real Debian package?
>
> I just forgot to add the debian/ dir to my git repository, so it should
> be OK now. But I may need MoM at some point, but maybe after the summer
> when I'll be back from vacation and may have a few more time to follow
> the recommendation of a mentor :-)
Fine. You are always welcome as well as your colleagues.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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