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Re: Comments on simrisc (Was: simrisc_13.02.01-1_amd64.changes is NEW)



Hello Andreas,

Thank you for reviewing and improving simrisc!  Replies and questions
in-line below.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 09:51:21AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Tony and Frank,
> 
> thanks for packaging simrisc for Debian.  That's always welcome.
> 
> I have some slight remarks about some details in the Debian Med team.
> 
> In Salsa repositories we are usually setting integrations to send
> e-mail on push and also ircer to get other team members informed.
> I did so manually now.  Its more easy if you use the script
> 
>    https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/helper-scripts/-/blob/master/inject-into-salsa-git
> 
> which is doing this automatically for you.

I was wondering about integrations but was also trying to follow this
section of the policy [1]:

> Creating a new repository on Salsa
>
> Before pushing to salsa.debian.org for the first time, an empty
> repository needs to be created there in the Gitlab interface.

[1] https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/#common-git-repository-structures

Do you mind if I submit a merge request for the policy?

> Moreover we are assembling citation data about scientific publications
> in debian/upstream/metadata.  I added the two citations from your
> description.  Usually we do not link to those publications from the
> long description but I leave this for your personal decision.

Thank you for your guidance here.

> Once we are adding new packages to Debian Med its a good idea to add the
> package to a task of the debian-med source package to show up on the
> tasks pages and in a metapackage (later).  I just added simrisc to the
> oncology task[1].  May be it might also useful in practice or his -
> please note that the tasks are not exclusive and one package might show
> up in more than one task of the whole set[2].  (Simrisc and its citations
> will show up here *after* the according gatherers will have fetched the
> citations and new queue - so may be not before tomorrow.)

Perfect.  I will familiarize myself with the tasks.
 
> Finally I have removed debian/README.test from the packaging since there
> is no autopkgtest and this file from our packaging template does not
> make any sense.

Right - that was a miss on my part.  I need to up my game about tests.
For simrisc, I need to confer with Frank, but I believe that we should
be able to add an autopkgtest at a later date.

> Kind regards and thanks again for your contribution

Thank you for taking the time to review the package and provide detailed
feedback! 

One last question... Should I upload another package revision to NEW
(using -v for dpkg-genchangelogs), or wait for the package to clear NEW
and then upload the update, since I have to upload a source-only package
for it transition from unstable -> testing?

Cheers,
tony

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