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dget http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/piero/debpackages/pyhmm/pyhmm_0.1+20120123-3.dsc ] Hi Piero, after my first longish mail about pscoils I think I could be less verbose in this case. The first thing I would like to mention here that I would suggest to talk to upstream (so please change your hats ;-)). The tarball contains a directory trunk - nothing what you usually see in a released tarball. Moreover it also contains a lot of .svn directories. An find . -name ".svn" -type d | xargs rm -rf seems to be necessary before building the tarball to remove unwanted stuff in the release tarball. A further thing inside the tarball are *.pyc files. Having these inside a tarball is asking for trouble because the clean target cleans these files and thus your unpackages sourse tree will differ from the tarball after cleaning up. So I would also advise to remove these and finally things like .Sort_HMM.py.swp and remainings of LaTeX builds should be stripped as well. Basing your further packaging on a tarball cleaned up in the described manner and regarding the hints I gave in my previous mail will most probably lead you to a close to finished package. One question remains regarding the changelog: You are using "-3" as current Debian version. I would love to see if we start Ubuntu (or whereever targeting versions that are released *before* the first Debian package in a way that the version numbers of the other releases are lower than "<upstream-version>-1". Even if not striktly necessary it is a good idea to have the first released Debian package a package version number "<upstream-version>-1". You can choose for instance: 0.1+20120123-0~oneric or something like this. You can check the proper version number relation using for instance: $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.1+20120123-0~oneric lt 0.1+20120123-1; echo $? 0 so this is OK. More examples: $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.1+20120123-1~oneric lt 0.1+20120123-1; echo $? 0 $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.1+20120123-1+oneric lt 0.1+20120123-1; echo $? 1 ... so '~' is lower than no appendix while '+' is larger. I'm not fully sure whether you really intended to increase the version numbers really. I'm just mentioning it here as a general statement. As a further general statement: There is no point in having a lot of changelog entries *before* the first release which is uploaded to some public place except you want to inform some coworker inside the Debian team about important changes - but this can be done in Vcs anyway. In short: It makes sense to have the first upload to official Debian mirror with one singular changelog entry concerning one singular upstream release which says: Initial upload (Closes #????) That's all. The history of Debian changes usually beginns *after* the first upload to Debian and not before. The only comment I have to predcchmm is rather a question: Are these files $ find . -name "mod*.mod" Some files which can be recreated and do not really belong to the source tarball? Everything else said in my first mail applies similarly to this package. I did not yet commited the packaging to SVN - just do it yourself after polishing it according to my hints. Kind regards and thanks again for your work Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
