Re: Packaging Ray for Debian Med

[Sébastien Boisvert <sebastien.boisvert.3@ulaval.ca>]

Hi Andreas,

Sorry for the delay.

I had to install wheezy because
there were broken dependencies when I tried to install
lintian unstable/sid into my stable/squeeze.

Now I have lintian 2.5.10.2.

I fixed these:

W: ray: hardening-no-relro usr/bin/Ray
W: ray: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/bin/Ray
E: ray: helper-templates-in-copyright

and these:

W: ray source: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright line 7: Cannot parse line "Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 S__bastien Boisvert"
W: ray source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.9.1 (current is 3.9.3)

The following commands throw no warnings and no errors (except the 3
overides for r-base-core):

lintian ray_2.1.0-1_amd64.changes
lintian ray_2.1.0-1.dsc
lintian ray_2.1.0-1_amd64.deb
lintian ray-doc_2.1.0-1_all.deb
lintian ray-extra_2.1.0-1_all.deb


See http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/ray.git


Thank you for your time.


On 11/06/2012 10:09 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:17:59AM -0500, Sébastien Boisvert wrote:
> > > I guess now you need to fire up
> > >
> > >    lintian -i ray_2.1.0-1_amd64.changes
> >
> > I don't get anything when I run this command.  I am on Squeeze.
>
> For development I'd (strongly) suggest to do drop a file
>
>     /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-lintian.pref
>
> containing
>
> Package: lintian
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 605
>
> provided that Squeeze supports this /etc/apt/preferences.d way - if not
> add this to your normal /etc/apt/preferences that should contain something
> like
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 501
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 50
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=experimental
> Pin-Priority: 5
>
>
> Once you might have done this please check
>
>    apt-cache policy lintian
>
> It should give lintian from unstable preference.  Alternatively you
> can explicitely do
>
>    sudo apt-get install -t unstable lintian
>
> (always provided your sources.list has an entry for unstable).
>
> Please check again the lintian report with a recent lintian.
>
> > > Regarding
> > >
> > >    W: ray: hardening-no-relro usr/bin/Ray
> > >    W: ray: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/bin/Ray
> >
> > Do you know why I don't see these warning with lintian ?
>
> Because of using lintian from stable.
>
> > > I would recommend to simply try
> > >
> > >    debian/compat: 9
> > >
> > > and in Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) which gives you good chances that
> > > hardening will be switched on in case Ray has a properly crafted build
> > > system.
> >
> > Changed compat and debbuilder to 9.
>
> OK.
>
> > > BTW, in debian/changelog you are using "stable" as target distribution.
> > > Besides the fact that you *never* can upload to stable and always have
> > > to target at "unstable" our convention is to use "UNRELEASED" in VCS as
> > > long as the package is not yet uploaded.
> >
> > Changed to UNRELEASED.
>
> OK.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.