Bug#811073: RFS: lbfgsb/3.0-1 [ITP]

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi,



>I see. I was under the impression that was only to be used when files
>are excluded for copyright reasons. I repackaged the upstream tarball
>because it included binaries (compiled from the source, one presumes)
>and some metadata - not necessarily things that are problematic in a
>copyright sense.


you can add a comment saying the reason for the exclude.
If there are no copyright issues instead of dfsg you should use "ds" (Debian Source)
suffix, and mangle debian/watch accordingly.

>This'll be more work, so I'll have to postpone it a bit. The build
>seems a bit trivial for a whole generic system to be added, doesn't
>it?


also adding a new target to the current Makefile can be a good compromise


>I think they'll be useful, yes. I'll get around to adding that.


an autopkgtest is also really helpful. and trivial to implemement
Ghislain added it to almost every package he maintains, so I think
you can take is work as starting point.

G.