Bug#356950: [Pyepl-users] Debian/Ubuntu packaging
Hi Aaron!
I've done preliminary packaging of PyEPL.
Debian package is available from
http://itanix.rutgers.edu/rumba/dists/unstable/perspect/binary-i386/science/python-pyepl_1.0.9-0.1_i386.deb
and the changes I had to do to make it build into the package (including
debian/ packaging directory) are available from
http://itanix.rutgers.edu/rumba/dists/unstable/perspect/source/science/pyepl_1.0.9-0.1.diff.gz
Please revise the changes I had to make (omitting debian/ directory):
the main problem was absent "cleaning" procedure. Changes I made are
quite cruel and are far from being an ideal solution.
In general, if someone want to track the package by installing it via
standard debian means (before it enters official Debian) needs to add
deb http://itanix.rutgers.edu/rumba/ unstable perspect
deb-src http://itanix.rutgers.edu/rumba/ unstable perspect
to their apt/sources.list
There are quite a few points I need to discuss and have resolved before
the package becomes appropriate for inclusion in Debian. Most of them
are in debian/TODO file within the source (after applying my diff)
Here they are and I would really appreciate your help on resolving them:
* Clarify the destiny of pyODE-0.35cvs-2.tar.gz
if it is possible to migrate to the fresh version (projects merged)
http://pyode.sourceforge.net/ for which RFP wnpp bug was filed long
ago http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=329013
Why is the full source (.tgz) is carried with pyepl anyways if there
is alrady ode.pyx within the pyepl tarball?
If updated pyODE is not suitable to be used with pyepl, could upstream at
least get rid of .tgz and just keep original ode.pyx (it includes
license warning, and can be accompanied with license file: I would
just refer to the LGPL file provided with Debian)
* Clarify the situation with shipped non-free font: code/resources/font.ttf
* To don't byte-compile: dh_python will do that... but I am not sure
on how to turn that off in setup.py...?
* Proper split out of shared libaries (.so) + (.h) files
I believe that at the end I will have to do such split into libepl,
libpyepl-dev and then making python-pyepl depend on libpyepl.
Might need to clarify at debian-mentors@l.d.o
* Proper "clean"-up procedure
Well... though it is not required (or in other words "could be
avoided") -- it is good to have proper clean-up procedure and
original Makefiles were missing clean target. Besides that setup.py
is not tailored to provide proper cleaning. Temporary fix was
applied but proper solution would be better
* Compile and package manual into -doc
Compilation failed on first attempt: more investigation is necessary
> make
jade -t sgml -d /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/html/docbook.dsl pyepldoc.sgml
jade:pyepldoc.sgml:10:0:E: character "<" not allowed in declaration subset
jade:pyepldoc.sgml:31:2:E: character "<" not allowed in declaration subset
jade:pyepldoc.sgml:40:8:E: end of document in DTD subset
make: *** [pyepldoc.html] Error 1
Installed:
ii docbook-dsssl 1.79-3 modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets, for print
ii jade 1.2.1-47 James Clark's DSSSL Engine
Besides that, I have tried to run example scripts using PyEPL installed
from my Debian package and bugs.py works properly but hw.py example
shipped with source tarball fails... and the reason why is that the
examples shipped within source tarball are different from the ones
within pyepl_sample_code-1.0.9
> diff pyepl-1.0.9.origg/code/documentation/source/examples/hw.py pyepl_sample_c
ode-1.0.9/hw.py
8a9
> exp = Experiment()
could we unify those? :-)
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Aaron Geller wrote:
> Hi Yaroslav.
> You can run PyEPL experiments in either of 2 modes: with or without synchronizing to the monitor refresh. If you run
> with synchronizing enabled, the function actually blocks until the screen update has occured; there is no need to guess
> as to how long the delay due to the refresh is. We know based on when the function returns.
> Syncing to the screen refresh is important for psychophysics experiments, but if you want to minimize delays due to
> screen updates, you can turn this functionality off with the --no-screen-sync flag at the command line.
> With respect to debian package, nobody has yet packaged pyepl in a .dpkg. We would love to have skilled debian users
> help us with linux deployment. We will be in touch!
> Thanks for your interest,
> Aaron Geller
> PyEPL Project Maintainer
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