Bug#734611: RFS: libfixbuf/1.4.0 ITP -- Implementation of the IPFIX protocol

["Johannes Schauer" <j.schauer@email.de>]

Hi,

Quoting Wookey (2014-01-14 01:59:22)
> +++ Johannes Schauer [2014-01-08 15:41 +0100]:
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libfixbuf":
> OK. Looks sound to me.

thanks for looking at it!

> A couple of minor points: You might want to include a watch file for new
> upstream releases.

I indeed wanted to but the website which offers the releases hides the correct
url behind a JavaScript. It took me a while to find out that I had to enable
JavaScript to be able to click on their links. Because of that it would be
necessary for uscan to parse a JavaScript file. I did not find to out how to do
this with uscan or if it is even possible at all. The default seems to just be
searching for <a href=""> tag values which does not work here because the <a
href=""> is generated by JavaScript.

> Should you do something with the included pyfixbuf-0.1.tar.gz, like drop it
> or add a python package?. It's mostly wasting 400K of space. I guess
> currently you have a pristine upstream tarball - it just happens to have
> another dollop of software somewhat unhelpfully included, and not in a format
> conducive to bulding from it. I guess that's fair enough.

I forgot to remove that tarball from the upstream orig.tar.gz before my upload
to mentors.debian.net.

I solved the debian/watch issue when I noticed that apart from the download
links, there are also links to the individual <h1> headers on that website
which include the version number. The resulting debian/watch file is a bit
cryptic but seems to work. I also added debian/repack.sh to debian/watch

debian/repack.sh repacks the upstream tarball, removing the tarball with the
python bindings and some pre-generated documentation.

I added a debian/README.source to explain the changes.

The new version is on mentors as 1.4.0+ds-1

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libf/libfixbuf/libfixbuf_1.4.0+ds-1.dsc

Thanks!

cheers, josch