GNU polyxmass: brand new lintian-linda-clean packages
Filippo Rusconi
Some days ago I asked if someone would help me assess if the packages
I prepared for the GNU polyxmass project were OK, and some kind soul
pointed me to some errors that were detected by lintian.
(This project is GPL'ed software, aimed at allowing user perform
simulations and analyzes of polymer mass spectrometric data.)
I've reworked the packages now and they are lintian-linda-clean unless
for two things:
1. the menu icon (that is limited to 24 colors using The Gimp) makes
the verification programs complain about colors which are non
correct. I could not find a solution to this problem and found on
the web that lintian was buggy with this respect. Anyone ideas ?
2. the verification program also pretends that the detailed
description might contain a non-indented section (control
file). However, I could not find why there was this diagnostic.
Apart from those lintian W/E messages, the packages are clean.
I would be glad if someone was interested in that software, and would
try the packages that I made.
The packages should be apt-get'table from
deb http://www.polyxmass.org/debian-packages binary-i386/
deb-src http://www.polyxmass.org/debian-packages source/
I tried this with
# apt-get install polyxdef
and it correctly determined the dependencies on a virginal Debian
GNU/Linux machine, downloading everything needed (what a wonder !).
Overall, the fact that I had to prepare Debian packages certainly made
me improve the upstream material. That's clever, for a packaging
system!
Thanks for your help,
Bye,
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Filippo
Mass spectrometry in GNU/Linux ? GNU polyxmass !
www.gnu.org/software/polyxmass or www.polyxmass.org
Free software that you are welcome to distribute!
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/index.shtml
Lionel Elie Mamane
project and all. Congratulations.
(We'll continue the rest of the discussion by private mail, shall we?)
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Filippo Rusconi wrote:
> Apart from those lintian W/E messages, the packages are clean.
Well, there are problems not caught by linda / lintian.
> I tried this with
> # apt-get install polyxdef
> and it correctly determined the dependencies on a virginal Debian
> GNU/Linux machine, downloading everything needed (what a wonder !).
Welcome to Debian!
> Overall, the fact that I had to prepare Debian packages certainly made
> me improve the upstream material. That's clever, for a packaging
> system!
:-)
Now, on to the problem I found in your packages: They miss
build-depends! The dependencies of binary packages, which permit the
wonder you described, have a correspondence in the source package: The
"Build-Depends:". It _must_ list all (binary) packages that must be
installed for the package to compile, except packages that are in
build-essentials. Missing for polyxcalc are at least:
- glib2
- gtk+2
- libglade-2.0 >= 2.0
- libpxmutils >= 0.7.0
- libpxmchem >= 0.7.0
An easy way to test whether no Build-Depend is missing is trying to
build in a pbuilder / sbuild chrrot (see these packages).
Please read on this issue:
http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/build-essential
http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
Additionally, if as it seems, you intend to become a debian packager,
please read _entirely_:
http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/
http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
and the relevant parts of:
http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/
http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/
http://www.fr.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debconf_specification.html
http://www.fr.debian.org/devel/
Would you like me to help you in your packaging of polyxmass? Assuming
you do, fix the build-depends, notify me and I'll take a look at the
packages again. OK?
I took a look at debian/rules of polyxcalc:
- DH_VERBOSE is useful for you, but why do you activate it in the
package you distribute?
- CFLAGS = -g -z -Wl -Wall -Werror -D_REENTRANT
What is the "-Wl" good for? What is the "-z" good for (I don't see
it documented in the gcc manual)?
Doesn't the Makefile / config.status add the -D_REENTRANT by itself?
Do you intend to become a Debian Developer or to have the packages
sponsored on long term? Note I cannot sponsor / advocate you, I'm not
(yet) a DD myself.
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Lionel
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