On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:03:24PM +0200, shuerhaaken wrote: > > That's what Suggests/Recommends are made for. E.g. Rhythmbox Recommends > > rhythmbox-plugins, quodlibet Suggests quodlibet-plugins... From Policy ยง7.2 > > "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with > > this one in all but unusual installations": seems what you need. > > > > My suggestion was mainly based on personal preference (I like to choose if I > > actually want the plugins or not, if they are not strictly needed) and on > > what other packages do. It is not a requirement, hence you can do whatever > > you want. > > If that's the Debian way, I will just leave it like that and ship an > extra package for xnoise-plugins
Ok, there are a couple of issue thought: - you should append something like " (plugins)" to the short description so that it does not duplicate the description of the main package. - the -plugins package right now Depends on various -dev packages. I do not think they are needed. Also, libcairo-dev is duplicated in Build-Depends. > > Btw, the package didn't show up on mentors.d.n yet, hence I couldn't check > > the modifications you did (it may just be a problem of mentors.d.n... it > > happens sometimes). > > Hmm. I uploaded and it was visible here: > http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=xnoise > But I also couldn't get it via repo. So I'll upload again in a few > minutes. I can see it now. > > Final suggestion (I forgot to say this in the previous email), you may want > > to join the Debian Multimedia Team [0] to maintain this package (it > > would be easier for you to find an uploader and some help to maintain the > > package). Please have a look at our policies [1] (maintain the package on > > git using git-buildpackage, "Debian Multimedia Team" is the Maintainer and > > you the Uploader, ...). If you are interested and ok with our workflow feel > > free to subscribe and post this RFS to the team's mailing list [2] (you will > > also need an account on alioth.debian.org). > > > I'll have a look into that. Hope they don't just pull out the current > git version instead of a release. Not sure I've understood, but the git repository is only used to keep track of the Debian-related modifications (those under "debian/"), and, additionally, it holds a convenience copy of the upstream sources (imported from the upstream tarball) to ease building. Have a look at http://git.debian.org for some examples (our packages are those under the pkg-multimedia namespace). Cheers -- perl -E'$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110712095112.ga8...@pc-ale.fastwebnet.it
