Request for Review - Nuitka the Python compiler
Hello,
I created an ITP for Nuitka here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648489
I have followed your advice in as so far received, and made the
following things:
a) First of all, I added "setup.py" and distutils stuff to Nuitka,
something I had never done before.
b) To facilitate that, I have moved the C++ and Assembler codes to new
packages and declared them as package data. That were huge changes, but
for the better I guess.
c) I renamed "Nuitka.py" to a "nuitka" binary. I am keeping the drop-in
replacement as "Python" though.
d) I have used "py2dsc -m "Kay Hayen <kayhayen@gmx.de>"
Nuitka-0.3.15pre2.tar.gz" on what the dist directory gives me. I have
then edited, the debian directory according to the tutorial.
e) I have resolved the collision of the binary and package name not by
renaming it, I wouldn't know when and where to do it, but by puting it
into "bin", like this:
override_dh_auto_install:
python setup.py install --root=debian/nuitka --install-layout=deb
--install-lib=/usr/share/nuitka --install-scripts=/usr/share/nuitka/bin
override_dh_auto_build:
and have links like this:
/usr/share/nuitka/bin/Python /usr/bin/Python
/usr/share/nuitka/bin/nuitka /usr/bin/nuitka
which appears to work fine.
f) The control file I adapted like this:
Source: nuitka
Maintainer: Kay Hayen <kayhayen@gmx.de>
Section: python
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: python (>= 2.6.6-3), debhelper (>= 7.4.3)
Standards-Version: 3.9.1
Package: nuitka
Architecture: all
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, g++-4.6 (>= 4.6.1), scons
(>=2.1.0-1)
Description: Python compiler with full language support and CPython compa
X-Python-Version: >= 2.6
The general goal would be to make it back portable, that is why I am
using Python 2.6 as my upstream required minimum. I hope control is the
right spot, the tutorial didn't make that so clear.
For build depends I am not so sure.
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Then questions I have:
1. The "dch" is not picking up my email address, unlike "reportbug",
kind of annoying.
2. I would like to remove the "inline_copy" directory with a patched
scons from the package, as it's not necessary with Debian when having
the dependency.
3. My documentation is ".rst", so I guess, i should build-depend on
docutils, and so something, but what? Maybe that's really a distutils
question, but I wonder where to put the resulting pdf.
4. My workflow now would be to start from py2dsc over and over again,
and to script the replacement of the debian control files. It seems
rather pointless to keep more than those files:
debian/compat
debian/changelog
debian/rules
debian/control
debian/links
debian/source
debian/source/format
I will add a copyright file later.
5. Should I now setup my own repository, or is it realistic to get it
into Debian proper, or is there a lot missing now. The copyright should
be easy for me, but yeah, I have no clue really.
The package is going to see some flux still, I guess. The "Python" e.g.
should accept options like python does. On the other hand, I have no
clue how to provide an apt repository these days, the HOWTOs I found are
all obsolete, and "repropro" package seems to be more about mirroring.
6. The changelog talks of "unstable". Is that OK if I am building
against "testing" ?
What I have currently, you can browse it at:
http://www.nuitka.net/volatile/debian/deb_dist/
Yours,
Kay
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