Re: python-apt
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:21:02PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > OK, well, I volunteer to maintain the package and deal with the bug reports,
> > if that is what is necessary.
>
> Oh, you can upload it with this list as the maintainer if you want, I can
> answer most of the lack-of-documentation type questions..
It looks like all of the good bits have already been done. I only see a few
things that I think deserve tidying up.
Since a copy of the GPL will not be installed as part of the package, this
seems prudent:
diff -u -r1.1 copyright
--- copyright 2002/01/08 07:31:34 1.1
+++ copyright 2002/01/16 06:50:44
@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
+
+On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License can be
+found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
The copyright file should also, I think, list the name of the copyright
holder as part of the license statement.
Also, the description could use some enhancement. Since there is no
libapt-pkg package which describes what sort of functionality is available
in it, python-apt's description should probably include a blurb about it.
Maybe something like this:
--- control.~1.4.~ Tue Jan 8 02:28:48 2002
+++ control Wed Jan 16 02:00:09 2002
@@ -12,5 +12,9 @@
Description: Python interface to libapt-pkg
The apt-pkg Python interface will provide full access to the internal
libapt-pkg structures allowing Python programs to easily perform a
- variety of functions.
-
+ variety of functions, such as:
+ .
+ - Access to the APT configuration system
+ - Access to the APT package information database
+ - Parsing of Debian package control files, and other files with a
+ similar structure
Otherwise, I am pretty much ready to upload.
--
- mdz
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