Bug#426581: meshlab - anyone still working on this

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

Hi Teemu,

Sorry for a delay -- had a look at it:

Here are my comments:

* update copyright years in debian/copyright since there was a new upstream
release this year

* why to have those
  #if defined(DEBIAN)
  if we are patching sources anyways?

  and those points about hardcoded paths already were mentioned in the thread
  in d-s mailing list... may be upcoming release 1.2.0 will address them
so debian patch shrinks? or may be it is time to cherry-pick few patches from
upcoming 1.2.0 which already fixed build structure a bit?


* *MAN pages are needed*, though there are no cmdline arguments, at least to give
  very brief info on WTF is that

   is meshlabserver a useful tool on its own (pardon my ignorance -- never used
  meshlab before)? if so, then cool - just man page, if not, would be better to
  move it away from /usr/bin under /usr/lib/meshlab.
  Since there is no man page I can't figure it out

So updated copyright years + man pages and I would upload the beast...

Long-going idea: since there are quite a few libraries which might be useful
outsize of meshlab GUI tool, it would be neat to have libmeshlab,
libmeshlab-dev packages (with appropriate versioning in the names). What do you think?



On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Teemu Ikonen wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko
> <debian@onerussian.com> wrote:
> > first -- just to make sure
> >  http://esko.osmas.info/~tmx/meshlab/meshlab_1.1.1-1.dsc
> >  this one? not the newer by mod date but not in version
> >  http://esko.osmas.info/~tmx/meshlab/meshlab_1.1.0b~cvs20070528-1.dsc

> >  right?
> >  or was it sponsored already? (I just get into the mailing list for a
> >  while and that is where my procmail put the email... sorry about the
> >  delay

> Hi,

> I uploaded the latest version of the meshlab source package to
> mentors.debian.net in an effort to find a sponsor:
> http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=meshlab

> The package still has no sponsor, so please consider becoming one :)

> Best regards,

> Teemu


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