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
Re: new package (rocketworkbench), need sponsor, advocate etc
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). Your debian/copyright file should say where you obtained the sources (which you currently have in README.Debian). 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/... /usr/share/doc/rocketworkbench/README.txt only contains build instructions; are they useful to the end user of the package? I haven't sponsored anyone before but I can if you wish. regards, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
