Re: AM report for Christophe Prud'homm
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Christian Surchi wrote:
> AM report on Christophe Prud'homme
> by Christian Surchi <csurchi@debian.org>
>...
> Tasks & Skills:
>
> * he maintains several applications/packages
> - corelinux http://corelinux.sourceforge.net (libcorelinux, libcflw, libcfll)
> - kfem http://kfem.sourceforge.net (freefem and kfem)
>
> (debian packages are already available)
>...
> * he plans to
> - upload the packages have on hold: blitz, kfem, corelinux, vtk...
> - maintain his packages
I checked two of the binary packages (I couldn't find the source
packages in my quick search) with lintian and the result was catastrophic:
$ lintian freefem_3.5.1-1_i386.deb
E: freefem: copyright-refers-to-old-directory
W: freefem: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link
W: freefem: menu-item-creates-new-section Apps/math /usr/lib/menu/freefem:2
$ lintian libcorelinux_0.4.30-1_i386.deb
E: libcorelinux: ldconfig-symlink-referencing-wrong-file usr/lib/libcl++.so.1 -> libcl++.so.1.1.0 instead of libcldbg++.so.1.1.0
W: libcorelinux: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libcldbg++.so.1.1.0 usr/lib/libcl++.so
W: libcorelinux: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libcl++.so.1.1.0 usr/lib/libcl++.so
E: libcorelinux: shlib-missing-in-control-file libcl++ usr/lib/libcldbg++.so.1.1.0
E: libcorelinux: shlib-missing-in-control-file libcl++ usr/lib/libcl++.so.1.1.0
W: libcorelinux: unused-shlib-entry-in-control-file libcorelinux
$
There are surely more problems in the source (e.g. the /usr/doc symlink
gets deleted in the prerm by the script that dh_installdocs adds but it
isn't set in the postinst - that gives another lintian warning because of
the missing #DEBHELPER# token in the postinst).
> Recommendation:
>
> I strongly recommend Christophe as new Debian maintainer.
Looking at the lintian results above I strongly recommend not to accept
him at the moment because his packages are so buggy that I don't consider
his Tasks & Skills check as passed.
cu
Adrian
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