Re: Questions before RFS
On Thursday, October 08 2015, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Sergio,
Hey Andreas,
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 02:03:49AM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
>> I am finishing packaging SleepyHead
>> (<http://sleepyhead.sourceforge.net/wiki/>, ITP on Bug#780060), and
>> Andreas kindly suggested that I put the package under the Debian Med
>> umbrella (which I obviously accepted). However, before proceeding with
>> the Request for Sponsorship I would like to ask a few questions.
>
> Most of them were answered by Afif - I try to cover the remaining ones.
Thanks to both of you, by the way.
>> 0) While looking at the git repositories, I found
>> <http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/sleepyhead.git/>. I assume
>> this means that someone (Ulisses S. Freitas, probably) started an
>> attempt to package the software, but apparently never finished it. I
>
> I checked this out and noticed that this is rather a clone of the
> upstream Git and very small changes to our existing packaging template.
Yeah; the files under debian/ are all templates and don't really work.
>> could not find any message/ITP related to this attempt;
>
> This might (or might not) be related to my habit also delay an ITP until
> I'm really sure I can finish the package. Since chances are low that
> several people at the same time are working on the same package I take
> the freedom to derive from the usual practice for the simple reason to
> avoid ITPs bitrotting inside BTS.
Sure thing, no problem about that. There was an RFP for the package
(which I then turned into an ITP), that's why I decided to check with
you first (in case you have missed the RFP). But I'm glad we've sorted
this out.
>> is this OK to
>> proceed with my (almost complete) efforts? I am copying Ubiratan on
>> this message.
>
>>From my perspective it is OK to drop the old repository since it is
> basically a single commit from 1.5 years ago with obviously no further
> interest. And I would really remove the old repository since I would
> recommend to use the default packaging scheme with pristine-tar due to
> the fact that you need to remove files from the upstream tarball.
Yeah, great, I was going to propose to recreate the repository from
scratch indeed. So here's my next question, then: do I have the
necessary rights to do it on git.debian.org? I would assume that only
admins are allowed to delete repositories there. (Unfortunately I can't
test now because I'm waiting on Alioth to refresh its knowledge about my
ssh pubkey).
>> 4) This one should probably go to debian-mentors, but I'll take my
>> chances here. SleepyHead is shipped with some bundled libraries, which
>> I already removed from the compilation process in order to meet our
>> policy. However, their files are still in the tree (specifically a
>> "jquery.js" file that is causing a lintian error)). I tried using the
>> "Files-Excluded:" directive on debian/copyright, without success. I've
>> seen that Andreas got involved in the discussions about implementing
>> Files-Excluded, so I would like to know: what is the right thing to do
>> in this case? My current plan (not implemented yet) is to create a new
>> repository with "gbp import-orig" while providing the "--filter="
>> parameter to not import the bundles. Any other suggestion?
>
> I'd like to stress Afif's suggestion to use Files-Excluded.
Absolutely, I'll keep the Files-Excluded there (I wasn't planning to
remove it anyway), and I'll manually delete the unnecessary files for
now.
>> Well, I guess that's it. Thanks for the time and patience.
>
> You are welcome. Feel free to keep on asking here if not all your
> questions might have answered properly.
Thanks, much appreciated!
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