hi there,
I am learning my way towards creating my first Debian package.
The specific package I am working on right now is in this ITP bug
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962603
at this point, I've uploaded a set of packaging files to salsa
https://salsa.debian.org/fangq/libzmat
I'd like to have someone take a look, and help me figure out some
of the remaining issues.
Specifically, here are the things I want to fix
1. one of the 3 subpackages is an Octave toolbox (as a mex file). Although the binary was compiled during the packaging process, I wasn't able to find a template to assemble the octave package. can someone point to me if there is a template (for a similar mex-based toolbox) for octave?
2. when running debuild, I got the below warning
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol deflateBound used by
debian/libzmat1/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzmat.so.1 found in
none of the libraries
although, I've already added zlib1g-dev to Build-Depends and zlib1g to the Depends fields, I am wondering what else do I need to add.
3. I have two errors from lintian:
E: zmat source: source-is-missing private/zipmat.mexa64
E: zmat source: source-is-missing octave/linux64/zipmat.mex
these two folders (private/octave) are precompiled binary (mex)
files using the same source codes. They are not installed anyways,
I am wondering if I can set a flag to skip these files (or run a
pre-build script to remove them?)
4. naming convention: did I do this correctly? can I use libzmat
or zmat as the main package name?
if you can provide additional feedback on this package, I am very much appreciated.
thanks
Qianqian