[Debian-lego-team] NQC packaging and upstream change

[Nicolas Schodet]

* Matthew Sheets <ms.github at outlook.com> [2025-10-28 21:31]:
> I am still awaiting license clarification responses for two projects, both
> of which are part of the "Radar" examples.  As you probably saw, I sent out
> follow ups yesterday.

Thank you!

> README.md, PLATFORM-Mac.md, and PLATFORM-Windows.md currently
> link to files under the "_original" folder, so that if users would like to
> cross-reference documentation from the original project, they can readily
> do so.  There was an effort to update documentation, but I included those
> references in case the original documentation covers something that is
> not in the updated documentation.  If there is consensus that we are not
> missing any details that, we could perhaps remove those links?

I do not think we need to keep the original, as long as they are in the
git history, but I did not check for missing details.

> For the images under the "Omni" example (which show how to construct the
> "Omni" robot), I'm open to suggestions on the best approach to take.  The
> pictures are shown in the ReadMe file for Omni, but I do agree that those
> images are disproportionately large compared to the rest of the NQC package.

If you have imagemagick installed, this:

	mogrify -resize 1024x1024 Remote.jpg

reduces the size to 336k, and it’s still have enough details.

Anyway, I think I will split the package in several ones, at least one
for the doc and maybe another one for the examples.

> In looking a Buildd status for NQC, it shows several as unavailable due
> to the absence of pandoc or pandoc dependencies.  If the packaging system
> supports it, I did update the Makefile so that pandoc would be an optional
> build dependency.  If pandoc is not available, then Make will skip the
> generation of the documentation but still do everything else.
>  * https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=nqc

Good observation, I can change this. Or even better, if I split the
package, the doc can be arch-indep and not built on those architectures.

Nicolas.