Re: [MoM] Packaging mindthegap (Was: [MoM] Packaging mindthemap)

[Shayan Doust <hello@shayandoust.me>]

Hello Andreas,

Nicely constructed description within your last couple of emails, thank you!

Just to clarify before I push: within my current workspace, two deb
packages are generated: the origin mindthegap and the new
mindthegap-examples. The main mindthegap package now recommends
mindthegap-examples. I have excluded file repetitions within both
packages so we do not overlap, so I have simply swapped some files in
favour of the example package. This does not affect autopkgtest. Within
the example package, I have *cherrypicked* to include the scripts
directory within /usr/share/mindthegap/test as this contains our python
dataset generation scripts that generally should not have any influence
to anything within mindthegap as it is not used within the project scope
and is there for manual user invocation. I have also thrown in the
jenkins folder as by looking over the script files, they seem
interesting enough to be classed as an example. Should these files be
located within /usr/share/doc/mindthegap or
/usr/share/doc/mindthegap-examples?

> Sometimes I use the name PACKAGE-data but in this case this
> might be misleading since there are other data which most probably are
> needed to run mindthegap and are not just optional.

I agree. The data folder is occupied by sample data generated by the
python files by upstream which is used within the test scripts, which
are invoked via autopkgtest.

Now, a quick question. As these are basically static files that are good
as references, should the mindthegap-examples package do anything else
rather than simply act as an optional addition/split from mindthegap
itself. It shouldn't need any form of compilation. At least, not within
python as that is interpreter-based and python3 as a dep should be good
enough?

Additionally, I have also eliminated more lintian outputs so things are
beginning to seem a lot cleaner. How should
"new-package-should-close-itp-bug" be handled / possibly rectified?

I will review over the recent emails transacted by you so I can see if I
have missed out anything - hopefully I haven't as I have the slight
tendancy of skimming over things :-). I will again push everything as
soon as possible.

Thanks for your assistance,
Shayan Doust