Bug#621874: [Debichem-devel] VOTCA available on my PPA
2013/10/31 Nicholas Breen <nbreen@debian.org>:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 02:55:04PM -0600, Christoph Junghans wrote:
>> I finalize found the time to make the first steps to package VOTCA for Debian.
>> The source/binary builds are available on
>> <https://launchpad.net/~ottxor/+archive/votca>.
>>
>> Please have a look and help me to improve it, so that I can hand it
>> over to debichem soon.
>
> Hi Christoph,
>
> Thanks for working on those. They look fairly sensible to me; the one change
> I'd strongly recommend is updating them to debhelper v9 compatibility, which
> should automatically handle both the multiarch paths and appending CPPFLAGS to
> CXXFLAGS. It might also be worth specifying what exactly the dh_python2 calls
> should operate on, since those throw a lot of errors during their run from
> trying (and failing) to operate on non-python files -- not a fatal error, it
> just makes that part of the build log hard to read.
Don, done & done. VOTCA uses the LIB variable to set the lib location,
which is obliviously not what dh excepts, so I left this in rules.
> There's still a second typo in 11_csg_boltzmann_typo.patch: "telp" -> "help"
Done.
>
> Have you considered including the tutorials as additional documentation? I
> tried setting those up at first with the multiple-tarballs feature of the 3.0
> source format [1], which does work although you'll need to write your own
> installation procedure in debian/rules for them.
Done.
>
> Policy 3.9.5 was just released [2], so you can bump the Standards-Version lines
> in debian/control. I don't see any changes that would affect your packaging.
Done.
>
> --
> Nicholas Breen
> nbreen@debian.org
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#How_to_use_multiple_upstream_tarball_in_3.0_.28quilt.29_format.3F
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/10/msg00006.html
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Christoph Junghans
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