[Fwd: Re: RFS: uniconvertor]

[Andreas Wenning <awen@awen.dk>]

Hi all

After looking a bit closer at the python packaging teams page, I will
very much like to join the team to maintain the package =)

My Alioth login is "awen-guest".

Cheers,
Andreas
-- 
Andreas Wenning <awen@awen.dk>


-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Andreas Wenning <awen@awen.dk>
> To: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
> Cc: debian-mentors <debian-mentors@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: RFS: uniconvertor
> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:53:16 +0100
> 
> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 14:15 +0100, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/uniconvertor/uniconvertor_1.1.1-1.dsc
> 
> > * rename uniconvertor-modules package to python-uniconvertor
> Renamed
> > * IMHO you can merge uniconvertor and python-uniconvertor packages
> >   (new name: python-uniconvertor). Yeah, that means lots of architecture
> >   independent files will be in arch. dependent package, but if you'll
> >   additionally use bzip2 compression (dh_builddeb -- -Z bzip2), that
> >   will not be a big problem (467 KiB), I guess
> Merged back into one package and using bzip2 compression.
> > * change python-uniconvertor's Section to python
> Done
> > * add "Conflicts: yudit" to uniconvertor package (/usr/bin/uniconv)
> Thanks; conflicts added. We can remove that after the symlinking is
> removed later.
> > * build depend on python-central (>= 0.6)
> Done
> > * add "Provides: ${python:Provides}" in python-uniconvertor package
> Done
> > * add dh_shlibdeps in binary-arch rule
> Done
> > * replace "libc6 (>= 2.6), python (>= 2.4)" with
> >   "${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}" in Depends
> Done
> > * build python-uniconvertor-dbg package (see DPMT repo for some examples),
> >   join #debian-python if you will need help
> Figured it out with a little help =)
> > * remove last line (" .") in long description
> Done
> > * remove dh_strip from binary-indep rule
> No binary indep rule anymore, so nothing to remove
> > * hint: you can use dirs and links files (and dh_installdirs, dh_link in
> >   debian rules)
> Thanks for the hint. Changed to use these functions of course.
> > * why uniconvertor wrapper is in /usr/sbin and not in /usr/bin ?
> Mindslip... changed back of course.
> > * add "exec" before "python -c" in ^^
> Done
> > * consider joining DPMT [1]
> Not right now ;-) Still learning while finding out, where I belong.
> 
> There is still two lintian warnings, which I'm ignoring. The one is after joining the packages again; and the second one is for sym-linking the doc-dir between the two pacakges.
> 
> Thanks a lot for looking at the package.
> 
> New version avaible at mentors.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas