Re: RFS: ballview - A free molecular modeling and molecular graphics tool
Dear Charles,
think you for your help:
There is still some polishing work to be done before somebody can
sponsor, however. Thijs has already pointed at some problems, and I
found a few others:
* Your README.Debian does not contain any information. You can safely
delete it if you have nothing Debian-specific to say to the Debian
users.
done
* Your control file says that the package is released under the GPL,
while the copyright file says LGPL.
done
* Your package does not build on iMac G5. Even on the 32-bit ppc port,
G5 machines use a ppc64 kernel. Apparently, this confuses your
configuration scripts. For the moment, the Debian buildds for powerpc
are G4s, but should they become G5, your package would get a
release-critical bug.
We will try to find a G5 machine to fix the configure script.
* I am not sure wether you need to specify the contents of the Depends:
field for the binary package. Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
${misc:Depends} usually does a better and safer job.
I am not sure if all dependencies will be found, but I will give it a try...
* You use python, did you read the Debian python policy ?
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/
Yes, I did, but I could not find any point that might be of special
importance for our package.
There may be more things to say, but I have to build the package
first...
Thank you again for your help!
I will upload a new improved version of the package in the next hours...
Lastly, did you hear about the Debian-Med project ? Do not hesitate to
contact us on our mailing list if you are interested !
It looks great, I would be glad if BALLView could become part of your
Custom Debian Distribution. I think both projects could benefit from
each other.
Yours sincerely
Andreas Moll
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