control: tag -1 +moreinfo control: owner -1 ! Dear Ben,
Thank you for your work to bring this new package to Debian! I can't sponsor the upload, but I hope this review is useful to you. I've split it into two sections: things that I would consider must-fixes before an upload to Debian, and suggested improvements. The latter aren't strictly necessary, but they would help demonstrate to a potential sponsor that you are committed to maintaining this package in Debian. === Must-fixes 1. The clean target isn't idempotent. I.e. if you try to run `debian/rules clean` when the package is already clean, it fails. 2. Please add proper headers to your patches, preferably in DEP-3 format. The most important thing is to explain why the patch is necessary. You can also use the Forwarded: header to indicate that the patches are Debian-specific or not. 3. debian/changelog contains a spurious space :) 4. These lintian informational warnings should be fixed or overriden with explanations for why the warning is a false positive: I: chapel-minimal: hardening-no-pie usr/lib/chapel/bin/linux32/chpl I: chapel-minimal: hardening-no-bindnow usr/lib/chapel/bin/linux32/chpl I: chapel-minimal: hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/lib/chapel/bin/linux32/chpl 5. The UTF-8 decoder needs to be packaged separately -- Debian strongly discourages convenience copies of code. It might already be packaged for Debian, or you might have to prepare another RFS. 6. Your package is "inadequate" -- don't worry, it just means that it fails the tests performed by the adequate(1) tool. Please see if you can fix them, or explain why they shouldn't/can't be fixed: chapel-minimal: broken-symlink /usr/bin/chpl -> ../lib/chapel/bin/linux64/chpl chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/__init__.py chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/chpl_3p_gmp_configs.py chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/chpl_3p_hwloc_configs.py chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/chpl_3p_jemalloc_configs.py chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/chpl_3p_massivethreads_configs.py chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/chpl_3p_qthreads_configs.py chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/chpl_3p_re2_configs.py chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/third_party_utils.py chapel-minimal: py-file-not-bytecompiled /usr/lib/chapel/util/chplenv/utils.py I think these might be due to PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 in d/rules. Perhaps you could add a comment to the rules file explaining why you need that setting. 7. The package is not compliant with the FHS. Almost everything is installed into /usr/lib/chapel, plus a symlink from /usr/bin/chpl into /usr/lib/chapel (only to the 64-bit version?). The main executable needs to be installed into /usr/bin/chpl. Please take a look at Debian policy section 9.1.1 and install the files appropriately. 8. Hint for the previous item: check out dh_installchangelogs(1), dh_installdocs(1) and dh_installexamples(1). 9. As discussed on IRC, missing-sources is meant to be a directory containing the missing sources, not a list of the things that are missing. You need source code for everything in your package. 10. You seem to be using dh_python2 but nothing gets installed to /usr/lib/python2/dist-packages. Is this deliberate? 11. I'm not an expert on multi-arch issues but this package seems to be targeted only at 32-bit and 64-bit Linux machines, just from looking at the 'linux32' and 'linux64' directories you have a lot of. Debian supports lots of other architectures, and the package should work on those. Is that something that can be fixed? === Suggested improvements 1. It would be nice to have some paragraph breaks in the extended description. 2. You could add Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browse fields to d/control. There are probably more improvements that you could make but it is hard to review the package because of items 7--11 above. So I'll leave you with these things to work on for now and then take another look :) -- Sean Whitton
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