Hi Scott,
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:32:08AM -0600, Scott Christley wrote:
> Thank you, I will definitely take up your offer for some MoM training to
> finalize the swarm package.
Great.
> I have committed all of my local changes, and here is the status of the
> package:
I have limited time this weekend, but will try to give short answers.
> * The source compiles correctly and the libswarm2 and libswarm2-dev packages
> get built.
Fine.
> * There are lintian issues that need to be resolved:
>
> W: libswarm source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends libswarm2-dev
> W: libswarm source: newer-standards-version 3.9.2 (current is 3.9.1)
> W: libswarm2-dev: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/libtool-swarm
> W: libswarm2-dev: script-not-executable ./usr/share/swarm/swarmrc
IMHO these are simple to fix when considering the hints you get
with
lintian -i
Just tell me if something remains unclear.
> W: libswarm2: shlib-with-executable-stack usr/lib/libswarm.so.2.4.0
I have never seen this, need some time to investigate.
> W: libswarm2: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libswarm.so.2.4.0
> usr/lib/libswarm.so
> W: libswarm2: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libswarmobjc.so.0.0.0
> usr/lib/libswarmobjc.so
Those links just belong to -dev package.
> E: libswarm2: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/lib/libswarm.so.2.4.0
> /usr/lib
Try to make sense out of it by reading lintian -i and the according page
at wiki.debian.org.
> * There is a bug with BLT [1] that has been fixed in Ubuntu [2], while it
> does not effect the building of the swarm package, it will prevent swarm
> applications from running. I've tried pinging the bug and the BLT
> maintainer, but no response.
I'll check this.
> There are a number of additional todo items:
>
> * Swarm comes with a set of sample applications, provided in a separate
> swarmapps source tarball. While they are free-standing apps by themselves,
> they are meant to be a starting point for modelers for writing their own
> swarm models. It would be nice to package them up.
Sounds reasonable.
> * Currently I am only building the ObjC library, there is also a java library.
We have some packages doing Java lib in addition (libhmsbeagle comes to
mind - perhaps taking this as an example might help).
> * Coming down the pipe from upstream is a Swarm V3 that has major
> architectural changes and is not backward compatible with libswarm2.
I have no idea about Swarm itself. Do you think it makes sense to
package libswarm2 or would it be better to just start with V3 inside
Debian? (That's a plain question - I have no idea about the
applications which might need V2 explicitely.)
> That's all I can think of for now. I think maybe resolving the lintian
> issues might be the first thing to tackle.
Yes. Seems quite straightforeward for most of the lintian issues - if
not just ask what might remain unclear.
Nice to have another MoM student
Andreas.
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524149
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blt/+bug/359857
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