Re: debian: blands: mathematics-dev: libmpfi libtestu01: git-format-patch
Hi,
On 22/05/15 14:35, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 09:19:15AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>> The essence of this issue is: Package maintainers should either
>>> maintain the Blends tasks files when creating new packages (and
>>> libnauty2-dev is per definition a new package since there is a
>>> new name string) or at least drop me a note.
>>
>> On the other hand, libnauty2-dev Provides libnauty-dev, which may
>> be also provided by libnauty3-dev and so forth: my guess is that it
>> would be more appropriate that the latest concrete package that
>> Provides a virtual package.
>
> I agree that this sounds catchy but as you state yourself more than
> one package might provide a virtual package. If this is the case
> what exact metainformation should be presented on the tasks page?
> It's not always that simple to say that with the highest version
> number.
Let say that there are two kinds of virtual packages:
1] the ones that can be provided by different source packages, a good example might be pdf-viewer;
2] the ones that are provided by the same source package along time, good examples are library
packages for which the concrete packages only reflect the increasing of the SO name.
Your assertion is correct for the first category, but obviously not for the second one.
So it has some sense to only list real packages.
>
>> Otherwise, it appears that libtestu01-dev, also a virtual package,
>> is not yet present in the mathematics-dev task page after a couple
>> of updates.
>
> Ther is no such package and I also have not seen it in the list of
> prospective packages in VCS. So what exatly do you expect to be
> displayed? The log file at
>
> http://blends.debian.org/_logs/debian-science.log
>
> says:
>
> ERROR - blendstasktools.py (1847): Package libtestu01-dev in task
> mathematics-dev neither in pool nor new and is lacking homepage and
> description - ignored
Indeed: it is an ITP present at Alioth:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/testu01.git
>
> I think this log message is correct and you should provide a real
> package name.
Thanks,
Jerome
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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