Re: GSoC weekly report of Samuel Henrique for week 1 [portkalipackages]
Hello Samuel,
I have a few comments.
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Samuel Henrique wrote:
> I did most of this work on a google spreadsheet[0].
While I can understand the convenient nature of this service,
this is not really in the spirit of Debian to rely on proprietary
services.
I also understand that the wiki might not be the best fit to
store this information given the level of details that you are
putting into each package.
I would suggest two alternatives:
- either you opt to use a service based on free software like
https://ethercalc.net/
- or you consider another approach for the wiki, maybe the table is not
the correct choice, you might want one section for each package so that
you can have a long list of information to associate to each package
In any case, you should really put the link to the real-time spreadsheet
in the wiki page for reference.
Or maybe you should not go into too many details for each package.
Honestly, what we really care about is:
- the license, can it go into main? can it go into non-free?
- the list of dependencies (including the same question about license)
The fact that it uses an old debhelper level, has a few lintian warnings,
lacks manual pages is not really interesting. Those will all be caught by
lintian when we work on the package.
> wig needs a manpage (i already committed the output of help2man, will
> finish that this week).
While it's nice to provide a manual page when it's missing, this is not a
hard requirement. Packages can enter Debian without any manual page, the
lintian warning is not a blocker.
> PS.: I ended up discovering a problem with the kali's xsser package, which
> depends upon debhelper >=9 and declared a compatibility level of 8. I'll
> report this to the Kali people.
This is unusual and likely the result of a mistake, but not really a bug either
as nothing is broken by this small inconsistency.
Cheers,
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