Ok, I've concluded the next round of work on the package. I recreated
the repo with `gbp import-dscs --debsnap`. I moved my d/watch and
+Files-Excluded d/copyright file but ran into issues with missing files
(e.g. src/Standard file and folders was totally missing) when trying to
do `gbp import-orig --uscan`. I ended up just importing from the
.orig.tar.gz and manually cleaning out the problematic copyright files
with `git filter-branch`. This also required a little patch to remove
references to the deleted samples in the doc build.
I also added things to d/copyright per your review recommendations.
> - d/changelog.gz / changelog.html.gz
I decided to remove d/changelog.gz & d/changelog.html.gz as well.
> - d/patches
> - did you check with upstream whether they would accept the patches,
> especially fix-install-dir-references.diff.
I will work on getting this and the manpage upstreamed.
> - lintian overrides
I cleaned these up.
> - script-not-executeable
> You writd in the override:# /usr/share/occt/bin/*.sh are reference
scripts
> Can you expand what you mean? Are they examples? Are they
> needed? For what are they needed?
> One of the scripts references DRAWEXE which is listed
> in d/non-installed
Yes, part of Draw's purpose is testing and demonstrating OCCT behavior
with tweaked dependencies, so these scripts are a reference for
environment variable tweaks which can be done in a wrapper script around
the occt-draw binary.
> - test suite
> You write in the lintian override that runs only under Windows with a
> custom occt-draw.. Can you elaborate? What is the difference to the
> occt-draw we ship?
To be honest, I will need to iterate on the occt-draw package. The
upstream devs mainly use Windows so things don't work perfectly out of
the box right now (although they do work.) Once they do, I will
integrate the upstream test suite (which itself uses occt-draw) into the
Debian package.
> - occt-doc
Renamed.
> - the xpm images...
> Where are they from? What is the copyright?
This is a bit of a tricky question--they are definitely derived from
upstream's logo (see opencascade.com) which is included in the source as
./src/DrawResources/OCC_logo.png. These .xpm files first appeared in the
6th revision of the first version packaged for Debian, 6.2-6. However,
they are not explicitly mentioned in the changelog or elsewhere. I
believe the files were made manually by the former maintainer Adam C.
Powell IV by modifying the aforementioned source image (which contains
the text "OpenCASCADE") by cropping most out of the text out and
changing filetypes (the .xpm files just say 'OCC' with the same font as
the upstream file.
So, I'm not sure if they should go in with the debian/* stanza in
d/copyright which includes Mr. Powell, or in the upstream stanza for *
files. Assuming it's a derivative work, albeit a trivial one, I've
decided to lump it in with the debian/* stanza currently.
> - symbol files
I cleaned things up with c++filt and removed the offending symbols you
mentioned, but this now results in a lintian error--not sure if I should
override it or what.
So, hopefully that summarizes what's new in my repo on salsa.d.o.
Remember that I remade the repo so a fresh clone will be needed.
Crossing my fingers that there won't be much more before this package is
ready!
