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Re: Somebody please put peless in a debian repository!



On Sunday 11 June 2006 06:38, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:20:34PM -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit :
> > All the debian style files can be found at:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/peless/ubuntu.510/
>
> Dear Paul,
>
> I had a quick look at your package. Here are some immediate comments:
>
> - There are many template files from the debian dir which can be
>   removed.
>
> - Especially if you package for Ubuntu, please consider including a
>   .desktop file (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/NoDesktopFile)
>
> - You do not necessarly need to indicate the dependancies of the binary
>   package by hand. Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} will make
>   it for you.
>
> - Some of the build-dependancies are superfluous, as they depend on each
>   others. Simplifying them will reduce the possibility of errors. For
>   instance, on my system, I could not install libboost-filesystem1.33.0,
>   as the version in my apt setup is libboost-filesystem1.33.1. However,
>   libboost-filesystem-dev depends on libboost-filesystem1.33.1 anyway,
>   and is listed in your build dependancies...

debian/control's Build-Depends could be narrowed down to:
debhelper (>= 4.0.0), autotools-dev, libboost-dev, libboost-regex-dev, 
libgtkmm-2.4-dev, libsigc++-2.0-dev

I would add also:

- file an ITP bug as described at http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
- close the ITP from debian/changelog, that is put the correct bug number in
	* Initial release Closes: #nnnn  (nnnn is the bug number of your ITP)
- debian/control 
	Section: text
- Go further by running lintian -i and linda -i over your .deb to spot more 
issues to fix ;-)
- test the final package building it inside a pbuilder environment.

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