Re: RFS: pyxplot

["Ondrej Certik" <ondrej@certik.cz>]

Hi Sam,

> pyxplot - Command-line plotting package producing publication-quality output
>
> Chances in this version:
>   * Repack upstream tarball to remove contained PyX tarball and HTML
>     documentation.
>     + 200_build-docs-verbose.patch: don't try to unpack PyX's tarball and
>       install it along with PyXPlot.
>     + No longer any need to build-depend on imagemagick.
>     + No longer any need to specify DEB_TARBALL in rules file.
>   * Introduce debian/new-upstream which does this for us automatically for
>     a new usptream release; call this script from the watch file.
>
> The package is lintian clean.
>
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pyxplot
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pyxplot/pyxplot_0.6.3.1-2.dsc

This link doesn't work, but this does:

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pyxplot/pyxplot_0.6.3.1+ds-1.dsc

I am not a DD, so I cannot sponsor, but just some remarks (but a
sponsor can have a different demands):

* the package looks good, it is lintian/linda clean and builds in cowbuilder
* Why not to join the PAPT team and let it maintain as part of it?

http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonAppsPackagingTeam

* I think you need to state in debian/copyright how exactly you
obtained the orig.tar.gz, the way I do it, is that I create
"get-orig-tarball" rule in debian/rules and this will download the
upstream tarball, unpack it, delete non-free stuff, and pack it again,
see for example the "abinit" package in unstable
* the version should be 0.6.3.1.dfsg-1 instead of 0.6.3.1+ds-1
* just curious - why is the python-scipy build dependency needed?

Ondrej