On 07/26/2011 10:50 AM, Andy Spencer wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "AWeather". > > * Package name : aweather > Version : 0.5 > Upstream Author : Andy Spencer (myself) > * URL : http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/aweather > * License : GPL-3+ > Programming Lang: C > Description : A weather monitoring program > > AWeather is a free real-time weather data viewer designed for weather > enthusiasts. AWeather is not a weather widget/dockapp that displays a > pre-computed forecast. It is designed to be an easy to use program that > integrates a variety of meteorological data in simple unified interface > > > The package appears to be lintian clean, with the exception of an rpath > error caused by linking to libhdf. > > To build this package you will first need to install the Grits and RSL > packages (see accompanying emails). > > Further information about the Debian package can be found here: > > Debian Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604185 > Git repo: git://git.debian.org/debian-science/packages/aweather.git > Gitweb: http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/aweather.git some comments on this package: it does not build in a clean chroot, it is missing a build dependency on libbz2-dev and these: libgrits0 (>= 0.5), librsl1 (>= 1.41) should be libgrits-dev and librsl-dev not the library only package please setup a pbuilder environment to test for missing dependencies: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto debian/watch is to generic it matches rsl-1.40.tar.gz use e.g. aweather-([\d.]+).tar.gz please fix this lintian warning: E: aweather: non-empty-dependency_libs-in-la-file usr/lib/aweather/radar.la you can probably remove the file: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval debian/copyright: Files: is a required DEP5 tag, add a Files: * if the copyright covers all files
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