Re: I made xpringies as debian package
Just as a small correction, if he wants to prepare the package himself,
then he should file an ITP (Intent to Package) rather than an RFP
(Request for Package).
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:41:56AM +0200, ericvb@debian.org wrote:
> Thanks for your interest in Debian.
>
> I downloaded your files but they aren't lintian compliant and seem to be
> corrupted. Could you correct this ?
>
>
> [eric@femto:~]$ lintian -i xspringies_1.12-1_i386.changes
> E: xspringies_1.12-1_i386.changes: md5sum-mismatch-in-changes-file
> xspringies_1.12-1.dsc
> N: size is 8077, argname is xspringies_1.12-1_i386.changes, filename is
> /home/eric/xspringies_1.12-1.diff.gz
> E: xspringies_1.12-1_i386.changes: file-size-mismatch-in-changes-file
> xspringies_1.12-1.diff.gz
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/cron.d.ex
> N:
> N: This package contains debian/*.ex and/or debian/ex.* files installed
> N: by dh_make. These are intended to be filled in with the package's
> N: details and renamed for use by various debhelper commands. If they are
> N: not being used, they should be removed.
> N:
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/emacsen-install.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/emacsen-remove.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/emacsen-startup.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/ex.doc-base.package
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/init.d.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/manpage.1.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/menu.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/postinst.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/postrm.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/preinst.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/prerm.ex
> W: xspringies source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/watch.ex
> E: xspringies source: package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends
> N:
> N: If a package uses debhelper, it must declare a Build-Depends on
> N: debhelper.
> N:
> [eric@femto:~]$
>
> Also, do you plan to become a Debian developer and look for a sponsor or is it
> just a package you hand us ? Wouls you like to see it in the oficial Debian
> distribution ? If the latter, please file a RFP against the pseudo-package
> wnpp (see http://bugs.debian.org/wnpp). When your package is OK, I'd be happy
> to maintain it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eric.
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:46:48PM -0700, haase@msg.ucsf.edu wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Some time I was looking for an old program called xspringies as debian
> > package.
> > I didn't find it, so I took the change to build my first package.
> >
> >
> > You can find the files here:
> > http://msg.ucsf.edu/~haase/debian/xspringies/
> >
> >
> > The Despcription (control-file !?) goes like this
> >
> > Source: xspringies
> > Section: games
> > Priority: optional
> >
> > Package: xspringies
> > Architecture: any
> > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> >
> > Description:
> >
> > Amazing simulation of classical mass and spring systems
> > XSpringies is a mass and spring simulation system. It's intended use is
> > more like that of a game, than some design package.
> > It's written using Xlib only. No Motif or any other widgets sets are
> > used. The animation in XSpringies is done using an off-screen Pixmap. The next
> > frame is drawn on this pixmap, then is blitted onto the screen. Since
> > the frame rate is about 30 frames per second, slower machines (or machines
> > which have poorly written bit-blitting code) will be deathly slow and blinky.
> > But now, in the days of fast happy machines, you might find yourself
> > turning down the timestep some so you can see what's going on..
> >
> >
> >
> > I hope people find this program fun !! Let me know what further I can do
> > about this.
> > I just wanted to have some more people to look at this - and maybe someone
> > might even want to take this package over.
> > (As far as I know it's not developed upstream anymore - and it's GPL)
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sebastian Haase
> >
> >
> >
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