On Thursday 23 August 2007 09:58:21 Nicolas Hadacek wrote: > I'm not completely sure what is the status of the debian packager for > piklab. Stefan used to do it. Then Tom Schouten volonteered to do it > and he made updated packages for piklab 0.14.2
> Also note that Stefan and Tom are both rookies at making debian > packages. It would probably be best if some more knowledgeable person > could at least help them. > > Regards, > Nicolas > Hello, > > Today, I wanted to update my experimental piklab debian package¹. However, > in the latest tar.bz2, I see that there is now a debian-directory. Here I > can see that "Stefan von Halenbach" has worked on creating a debian package > for piklab. > > This is great news, because I don't consider myself the best person for > this job (I'm not a KDE-user, but find "piklab-prog" very interesting). > > To avoid duplicate work, can you explain to bugreport 387703¹ what the > plans are about debian and piklab. If Stefan wants to maintain piklab for > Debian, then the RFP (Request For Packaging) can be renamed to ITP (Intend > To Package). > > > [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387703> Hi ! I would love to see Piklab integrated into the debian or ubuntu file distribution system, but as Nicolas already said, i don't think that i am the right person to do it. I am no developer and there are outstanding bugs with the packaging of piklab, which i am unable to resolve. Lintian nags about use of "rpath" and the manpages (which are already written) need to be integrated into the debian rules( if it is not done yet?). W: piklab: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/piklab-hex /usr/lib:/usr/share/qt3/lib W: piklab: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/piklab-prog /usr/lib:/usr/share/qt3/lib W: piklab: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/piklab /usr/lib:/usr/share/qt3/lib Also the Kde-documentation gets installed into the wrong directory and i can't find a solution to solve it. I made the debianising with piklab to get the ball rolling, and it worked so far and i talked with the upstream maintainer (Nicolas) about another packager for debian a while ago. Short after that Tom seemed to want to get this job. That was fine with me, because i did update my system to Feisty Fawn in the meantime, which had the newest packages (and hightest dependencys) at that time. If Tom don't want to maintain the debian package i would suggest to ask Aurelion Jarno, who is responsible for gputils at debian. Greetings Stefan
