Hi Anton!
Yes, I would appreciate the help, so that is very kind of you.
Btw, your second point (regarding dh) is something we had planned. But even
though the package has potential for improvement in several places, my
personal plan was to not do everything at once, in order to prevent several
problems appearing simulaneously. The name change in addition to inclusion
of the NMU in the changelog was enough of a worry for me at the moment :-)
But if someone more experienced could help I would be glad to work on more
improvements simultaneously. Actually, I have been doing some work on moving
it to dh locally, but thought I would delay it until after the change of
name has gone through without too many problems.
Regarding the change of name, I don't really have a strong opinion on the
matter. Replacing mpich2 with a good mpich3 package in Debian is my main
goal right now.
Best regards
Torquil Sørensen
On 26/05/13 23:31, Anton Gladky wrote:
Torquil, some suggestions on packaging:
I think it is better:
1) to use compat-level 9
2) dh instead of cdbs, debian/rules will be shorter and more clear in this
case;
3) copyright-file in DEP-5 format;
4) DEP-3 for patches
5) postinst and prerm scripts should be inspected.
If you want, I can try to help with some of points.
Regards,
Anton
2013/5/26 Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <torquil@gmail.com>:
Yes, I have uploaded the mpich 3.0.3 sources to the upstream branch in
the
git repository, as well as made some changes in debian/ to make it work.
I
might have a few more small changes, though, in addition to uploading the
3.0.4 upstream sources which are now available. E.g. perhaps upping the
Debian standards version and including an earlier NMU upload in the
changelog.
I have changed the source name to mpich in the git repository, and have
also
added a few dummy transitional packages since the binary packages will
also
change names a bit due to the name change and due to an increase in the
library soname.
Despite the fact that the existence of the transitional packages seems to
give a smooth upgrade on my system, I am of course not 100% sure that the
scheme I have deviced is optimal, since this is a bit new to me.
Best regards
Torquil Sørensen