Bug#791390: RFS: wxmaxima/15.04.0-1
Dear Vincent, Thanks to your help this will be my first really professional debian package: - d/changelog: please wrap lines to 80 chars (IIRC lintian has a check for this, not sure why it's not being triggered here), Done. and there's a duplicate debian/copyright: The tango icons have been released to the public domain entry in there. Done. - I can't seem to fetch a tarball directly from upstream using either your get-orig-source target or uscan directly (I check this when sponsoring packages to ensure that the tarball on mentors is identical to the tarball distributed upstream): Thanks a lot! Didn't know about this command, but made it work. Did try to upload the package to debian mentors under the same version number as the old one (hope this was a good idea) but did forget to remove the old one first = will retry uploading it when the server has sorted my mistake out. Thanks a lot, and kind regards, Gunter.
Bug#791390: RFS: wxmaxima/15.04.0-1
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi Gunter, On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Gunter Königsmann gun...@peterpall.de wrote: Dear Vincent, Cool! And thanks a lot! Now I know why it is always said to be hard to find a sponsor: Reviewing packages looks like being extremely hard work to me. Today when I woke up the first thing I did (after saying good morning to the guinea pigs) was fixing the package. The new version should be available at debian mentors again. Almost there, just a few small things: - d/changelog: please wrap lines to 80 chars (IIRC lintian has a check for this, not sure why it's not being triggered here), and there's a duplicate debian/copyright: The tango icons have been released to the public domain entry in there. - I can't seem to fetch a tarball directly from upstream using either your get-orig-source target or uscan directly (I check this when sponsoring packages to ensure that the tarball on mentors is identical to the tarball distributed upstream): $ fakeroot debian/rules get-orig-source uscan --force-download --repack --rename --destdir . wxmaxima: remote site does not even have current version debian/rules:21: recipe for target 'get-orig-source' failed make: *** [get-orig-source] Error 1 $ uscan --download-current-version --force-download uscan warning: In debian/watch no matching hrefs for version 15.04.0 in watch line http://sf.net/wxmaxima/ wxMaxima-([\d\.a-z]+)\.tar\.gz Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#791390: RFS: wxmaxima/15.04.0-1
* Vincent Cheng vch...@debian.org, 2015-07-07, 01:04: - d/changelog: please wrap lines to 80 chars (IIRC lintian has a check for this, not sure why it's not being triggered here), W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 7 W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 8 W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 9 W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 12 W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 16 Note this is a binary package check. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#791390: RFS: wxmaxima/15.04.0-1
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: * Vincent Cheng vch...@debian.org, 2015-07-07, 01:04: - d/changelog: please wrap lines to 80 chars (IIRC lintian has a check for this, not sure why it's not being triggered here), W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 7 W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 8 W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 9 W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 12 W: wxmaxima: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 16 Note this is a binary package check. Ah, that explains why it's not showing up on mentors.d.n (I suppose Gunter uploaded a source-only package). I wonder why that's not a source package check instead... Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#791390: RFS: wxmaxima/15.04.0-1
Dear Vincent, Cool! And thanks a lot! Now I know why it is always said to be hard to find a sponsor: Reviewing packages looks like being extremely hard work to me. Today when I woke up the first thing I did (after saying good morning to the guinea pigs) was fixing the package. The new version should be available at debian mentors again. Thanks again, and kind regards, Gunter. On So, Jul 5, 2015 at 1:44 , Vincent Cheng vch...@debian.org wrote: Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Control: owner -1 ! Hi Gunter, On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Gunter Königsmann gun...@peterpall.de wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package wxmaxima * Package name: wxmaxima Version : 15.04.0-1 Upstream Author : Andrej Vodopivec andrej.vodopi...@gmail.com * URL : http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/ * License : GPL-2+ Section : math Some comments after having reviewed your package, in no particular order: - d/changelog is missing the latest upload, 13.04.2-4; please don't drop old changelog entries - In general, please be more verbose in d/changelog (Updated the dependencies - list them explicitly). Additional things to consider including in d/changelog: adding/changing/removing build-deps/deps, updating standards version, adding/refreshing/removing patches, dropping the debian menu entry + icons. - d/control: please add a Vcs-Browser field - d/control: wxmaxima should depend on fonts-jsmath, not ttf-jsmath (latter is just a transitional dummy package) - d/copyright (blockers): specify which version of GPL the package is licensed under, and change the versionless GPL symlink /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL accordingly; also, CC-BY-SA 2.5 is not DFSG-compatible (but = 3.0 is) [1]. For licenses that are not included in /usr/share/common-licenses, you must add the full text of the license into d/copyright (not just a link to a creativecommons.org webpage). Regards, Vincent [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution_Share-Alike_.28CC-BY-SA.29_v3.0
Bug#791390: Info received (Bug#791390: RFS: wxmaxima/15.04.0-1)
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Bug#791390: RFS: wxmaxima/15.04.0-1
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package wxmaxima
* Package name: wxmaxima
Version : 15.04.0-1
Upstream Author : Andrej Vodopivec andrej.vodopi...@gmail.com
* URL : http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/
* License : GPL-2+
Section : math
It builds those binary packages:
wxmaxima - GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima
More detailed information about the package:
What is wxMaxima?
wxMaxima is a powerful graphical user interface for maxima, a program
that is specialized in finding symbolic solutions for mathematical
problems (which means it actually tries to find the formula that solves
a problem, not the number the formula would result in).
A simple example what it can do would be:
- a^2+b^2=c^2;
- solve(%,c);
[c=-sqrt(b^2+a^2),c=sqrt(b^2+a^2)]
But it can find a formula that solves many types of differential
equations, too:
- dgl:diff(diff(x(t),t),t)=-x(t);
- desolve(dgl,x(t));
x(t)=sin(t)*(at('diff(x(t),t,1),t=0))+x(0)*cos(t)
The actual output on the screen is much nicer, naturally, since the
equations are displayed in 2D there.
It is to notice, though, that wxMaxima can be used for numerical work,
too: It supports calculating with ordinary floating-point numbers if
one requests this - but it will happily use arbitrary-precision numbers
by default, exact fractions or bigfloat with a user-specified precision
that is only limited by the amount of memory that is available.
Why does the package need to be updated?
The version currently packaged with debian (13.04) is over two years
old. Moreover this old version has many bugs:
- In some locales many keys (for example in germany all hotkeys)
didn't work in 13.04
- In version 13.04 drag-and drops drops about half of the parenthesis
- 13.04 crashes if it has to display sometimes not-too-complicated
equations or if the save button is pressed while the program is
calculating
Also the old version currently packaged with debian still doesn't come
with a manual, has only a limited undo functionality and in many places
is rather slow. A longer list of enhancements can be found at
https://github.com/andrejv/wxmaxima/blob/master/ChangeLog
The package is lintian-free. Currently it is marked as orphaned. But
I am willing to package new versions and upload them to
mentors.debian.org on a regular basis. This is needed, too, since the
next version, once released, will have a pack of features new, too
including higher processing speed and syntax highlighting.
To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/wxmaxima
Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
command:
dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wxmaxima/wxmaxima_15.04.0-1.dsc
More information about hello can be obtained from
http://www.example.com.
Bug#791390: RFS: wxmaxima/15.04.0-1
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Control: owner -1 ! Hi Gunter, On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Gunter Königsmann gun...@peterpall.de wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package wxmaxima * Package name: wxmaxima Version : 15.04.0-1 Upstream Author : Andrej Vodopivec andrej.vodopi...@gmail.com * URL : http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/ * License : GPL-2+ Section : math Some comments after having reviewed your package, in no particular order: - d/changelog is missing the latest upload, 13.04.2-4; please don't drop old changelog entries - In general, please be more verbose in d/changelog (Updated the dependencies - list them explicitly). Additional things to consider including in d/changelog: adding/changing/removing build-deps/deps, updating standards version, adding/refreshing/removing patches, dropping the debian menu entry + icons. - d/control: please add a Vcs-Browser field - d/control: wxmaxima should depend on fonts-jsmath, not ttf-jsmath (latter is just a transitional dummy package) - d/copyright (blockers): specify which version of GPL the package is licensed under, and change the versionless GPL symlink /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL accordingly; also, CC-BY-SA 2.5 is not DFSG-compatible (but = 3.0 is) [1]. For licenses that are not included in /usr/share/common-licenses, you must add the full text of the license into d/copyright (not just a link to a creativecommons.org webpage). Regards, Vincent [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution_Share-Alike_.28CC-BY-SA.29_v3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
