Re: new package (rocketworkbench), need sponsor, advocate etc
On Monday 08 October 2001 23:28, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:02:04PM +1000, Geoff O'Callaghan wrote: Greetings all, I've packaged a new tool (or suite of tools)... Here's the blurb... Geoff, I don't know anything about rockets but I was intrigued. Your package looks good. I think you are missing a build-dependency on cgilib (without it, it can't find cgi.h). Yup... you're right... I'll take care of it. Your debian/copyright file should say where you obtained the sources (which you currently have in README.Debian). Ok. The layout of the original source is a bit odd. Is cpropep just part of the sf project, with more tools appearing later? It has an extra level of subdirectory than is usual eg rocketworkbench-1.0.20010807.orig/rocketworkbench/... Yes, cpropep is part of a set of tools. It's just the only one that is 'ready'. Yes, the source layout is pretty weird, but I didn't want to stuff around with it too much to get it into a Debian package. I just use the CVS repository 'as is' except for a couple of 'bug fixes' to get it to compile at all which i'm feeding upstream and a bit of surgery to stop really broken utilities from attempting to being built. I need to clean that up some more. /usr/share/doc/rocketworkbench/README.txt only contains build instructions; are they useful to the end user of the package? Ok I'll actually *create* some better doco. A lot of the other Debs i've been looking at seem to just find any README.* or other misc text files and dump them in doc/package/*. I agree that it should be useful stuff and not just crap. I haven't sponsored anyone before but I can if you wish. Hey that'd be great. Cheers Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new package (rocketworkbench), need sponsor, advocate etc
On Monday 08 October 2001 23:28, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:02:04PM +1000, Geoff O'Callaghan wrote: Greetings all, I've packaged a new tool (or suite of tools)... Here's the blurb... Geoff, [snip] Your debian/copyright file should say where you obtained the sources (which you currently have in README.Debian). I've made it so that README.Debian has information on the debian package for rocketworkbench.such as, what's unique to the Debian package as opposed to what you could download from sourceforge etc. ie. I said that the package currently only includes the 'cpropep' utility and explained where the examples were on a Debian system and what extra doco (manpages) are available That seems to better match the description of 'README.Debian' in the NMG - sorry should have read that a bit better. I've put the updated package at http://oss.starbiz.com.au/ and I put an extra file called rwb-buildlog in the directory which shows the result of the dpkg-buildpackage to make it easier to see what i've done. Cheers and thanks in advance Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new package (rocketworkbench), need sponsor, advocate etc
On Monday 08 October 2001 23:28, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:02:04PM +1000, Geoff O'Callaghan wrote: Greetings all, I've packaged a new tool (or suite of tools)... Here's the blurb... Geoff, I don't know anything about rockets but I was intrigued. Your package looks good. I think you are missing a build-dependency on cgilib (without it, it can't find cgi.h). Yup... you're right... I'll take care of it. Your debian/copyright file should say where you obtained the sources (which you currently have in README.Debian). Ok. The layout of the original source is a bit odd. Is cpropep just part of the sf project, with more tools appearing later? It has an extra level of subdirectory than is usual eg rocketworkbench-1.0.20010807.orig/rocketworkbench/... Yes, cpropep is part of a set of tools. It's just the only one that is 'ready'. Yes, the source layout is pretty weird, but I didn't want to stuff around with it too much to get it into a Debian package. I just use the CVS repository 'as is' except for a couple of 'bug fixes' to get it to compile at all which i'm feeding upstream and a bit of surgery to stop really broken utilities from attempting to being built. I need to clean that up some more. /usr/share/doc/rocketworkbench/README.txt only contains build instructions; are they useful to the end user of the package? Ok I'll actually *create* some better doco. A lot of the other Debs i've been looking at seem to just find any README.* or other misc text files and dump them in doc/package/*. I agree that it should be useful stuff and not just crap. I haven't sponsored anyone before but I can if you wish. Hey that'd be great. Cheers Geoff
Re: new package (rocketworkbench), need sponsor, advocate etc
On Monday 08 October 2001 23:28, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:02:04PM +1000, Geoff O'Callaghan wrote: Greetings all, I've packaged a new tool (or suite of tools)... Here's the blurb... Geoff, [snip] Your debian/copyright file should say where you obtained the sources (which you currently have in README.Debian). I've made it so that README.Debian has information on the debian package for rocketworkbench.such as, what's unique to the Debian package as opposed to what you could download from sourceforge etc. ie. I said that the package currently only includes the 'cpropep' utility and explained where the examples were on a Debian system and what extra doco (manpages) are available That seems to better match the description of 'README.Debian' in the NMG - sorry should have read that a bit better. I've put the updated package at http://oss.starbiz.com.au/ and I put an extra file called rwb-buildlog in the directory which shows the result of the dpkg-buildpackage to make it easier to see what i've done. Cheers and thanks in advance Geoff
new package (rocketworkbench), need sponsor, advocate etc
Greetings all, I've packaged a new tool (or suite of tools)... Here's the blurb... Package: rocketworkbench Description: Rocket Design Utilities The Rocket Workbench Project is a mission to develop open source high quality software tools for the design of experimental rockets. Using the most up to date rocket theory allows the software to produce the most accurate results. . This package currently implements the following tools: cpropep - Propellant Evaluation Program Ok... now rocketworkbench is a 'collection' of tools of which there is currently only one prime time ready tool - cpropep - but others are reaching varying stages of usefulness which i'll add when they start working ;-) I created a manpage for rocketworkbench which is going to be used as a pointer to all the utilities and a manpage for cpropep which i've fed back upstream and i'm guessing i'll be doing that for the other tools. Also I had to do a bit of jiggery pokery to get an appropriate structure for examples /usr/share/rocketworkbench/examples/cpropep/ ie other utilities will fit at the lowest level ie. ./examples/graindesign/... etc There's config files under /etc/rocketworkbench/ again only one conf file there at the moment but there will be more. I'm sure there's problems somewhere with what i've done so please lemme know what to fix. The package can be found at http://oss.starbiz.com.au/rocketworkbench_1.0.20010807-1_i386.deb I've given it a going over with lintian and it doesn't complain (any more :-) ) I've obviously installed it locally and it works for me - but i'm sure you've heard that before. So... If someone would like to a) sponsor the package that'd be great. If someone is happy to be an advocate for me and do the online advocate paperwork that'd be even better :-) Anyway... you may now return to your normal scheduled viewing Cheers Geoff O'Callaghan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new package (rocketworkbench), need sponsor, advocate etc
Greetings all, I've packaged a new tool (or suite of tools)... Here's the blurb... Package: rocketworkbench Description: Rocket Design Utilities The Rocket Workbench Project is a mission to develop open source high quality software tools for the design of experimental rockets. Using the most up to date rocket theory allows the software to produce the most accurate results. . This package currently implements the following tools: cpropep - Propellant Evaluation Program Ok... now rocketworkbench is a 'collection' of tools of which there is currently only one prime time ready tool - cpropep - but others are reaching varying stages of usefulness which i'll add when they start working ;-) I created a manpage for rocketworkbench which is going to be used as a pointer to all the utilities and a manpage for cpropep which i've fed back upstream and i'm guessing i'll be doing that for the other tools. Also I had to do a bit of jiggery pokery to get an appropriate structure for examples /usr/share/rocketworkbench/examples/cpropep/ ie other utilities will fit at the lowest level ie. ./examples/graindesign/... etc There's config files under /etc/rocketworkbench/ again only one conf file there at the moment but there will be more. I'm sure there's problems somewhere with what i've done so please lemme know what to fix. The package can be found at http://oss.starbiz.com.au/rocketworkbench_1.0.20010807-1_i386.deb I've given it a going over with lintian and it doesn't complain (any more :-) ) I've obviously installed it locally and it works for me - but i'm sure you've heard that before. So... If someone would like to a) sponsor the package that'd be great. If someone is happy to be an advocate for me and do the online advocate paperwork that'd be even better :-) Anyway... you may now return to your normal scheduled viewing Cheers Geoff O'Callaghan
