Re: SuperLU

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 11:00 +0000, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> > More important is that some dfsg files are still in the git tree.  
> > MATLAB/{spypart.m,time.m} and DOC/*ug.pdf.
> 
> Aha yes. (Is the user guide really nonfree?)

The argument is that the pdf is the useful bit, like a binary program.
 Just as we need the source for binary files, for the same reason we
want the source (the latex files) for the pdf files.


> Unfortunately, I have no experience with automatically creating dfsg
> tarballs, and there's a fair chance I'll do it incorrectly. I'd
> appreciate if someone could take over from here.

I've tidied up the dfsg handling, listing the reject files in
debian/copyright.

The package builds fine (and petsc3.7 seems happy with it).

The last step is to check lintian,
  lintian -i superlu_5.2.0+dfsg1-1_amd64.changes

There's a handful of warnings, have a go at fixing them:

W: superlu source: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique (paragraph at line 109)
 There are 2 licence short-names "permissive". Give one a distinct
 short name from the other. permissive-colamd or something.


W: superlu source: ancient-standards-version 3.9.5 (current is 3.9.8)


W: libsuperlu5-dbg: empty-binary-package
  Looks like debug symbols automatically went into libsuperlu5-dbgsym,
  so libsuperlu5-dbg is redundant (i.e. rename in debian/control. Or
specify -dbg as the debug package in debian/rules, e.g. with dh_strip).

Thanks for your packaging efforts.
Drew

> Cheers,
> Nico
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:48 PM Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-05-20 at 09:49 +0000, Nico Schlömer wrote:
> > > I've pushed some more changes to [1] (including a patch) and it's
> > now
> > > compiling and installing alright. I guess a review would be in
> > order.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nico
> > >
> > > [1] alioth:/git/debian-science/packages/superlu.git
> > 
> >