Hi Mike, thanks for providing a new package for Debian! But I have some notes/questions about your package.
First of all I would like to propose you to maintain your package under the debian-science team [1], which I think the most suitable team for such kind of software. You created an autotools-build for the c-file, which is provided by upstream. There are also a lot of other scientific-oriented packages [2]. Are there any plans to package them as well? If yes, will it be different packages, or they will be integrated into one "meta-package"? Some technical questions: 1) there is a folder in the source "build-aux". What is it for? 2) use compat level 9. 3) quilt is not needed in Build-Depends sections. 4) use DEP-5 for debian/copyright. 5) remove docs-file, it is empty. 6) remove libquadrule-dev,dirs and libquadrule1,dirs. They are useless. 7) la-files should not be installed at all. 8) clean debian/rules. It should be 3 lines long in your case. 9) I am not sure about symbols-file, whether it is necessary to provide it explicitly. After you build a binary, please, start "lintian -IE --pedantic" over your .changes files. You will get some warnings and errors, which need to be fixed as well. Cheers, Anton [1] http://debian-science.alioth.debian.org/debian-science-policy.html [2] http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/c_src/quadrule/quadrule.html On 04/02/2013 11:48 PM, Mike Neish wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "quadrule" > > Package name : quadrule > Version : 0~20121001-1 > Upstream Author : John Burkardt <jburka...@fsu.edu> > URL : > http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/c_src/quadrule/quadrule.html > License : LGPL3 > Section : libs > > It builds those binary packages: > > libquadrule-dev - Development files for quadrule > libquadrule1 - A variety of quadrature rules > > To access further information about this package, please visit the > following URL: > > http://mentors.debian.net/package/quadrule > > > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: > > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/quadrule/quadrule_0~20121001-1.dsc > > > More information about quadrule can be obtained from > http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/~neishm/quadrule/quadrule.html. > > Changes since the last upload: > > quadrule (0~20121001-1) unstable; urgency=low > . > * Initial release (Closes: #704151) > > > Regards, > Mike Neish > >
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