[Debian-med-packaging] libqes ready for review/upload

[Charles Plessy]

Le Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 09:33:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:21:29PM +1100, Kevin Murray a écrit :
> > 
> > As part of repackaging axe-demulitplexer, I've created a separate libqes
> > package (as the projects are separate). This package is ready for review and
> > upload. Once this hits unstable, I'll ask for review & upload of the new
> > axe-demulitplexer package, which will fix some FTBFS and RC bugs.
> 
> I am on it :)

Hi Kevin,

thanks for your contribution.  I just sponsored it.  Here are the compressed
build logs.

By the way, the package has no "symbols" file.  I know that Andreas does not
like them because by design they create build failures, but if you master them
and make most of the work on the package, I think that it should be OK,
especially that you are the upstream author.  Symbols files are especially
useful to ensure that a library package gets updated when a depending binary
package needs newer features from the library.  It is also usefult for spotting
some of the most obvious backward incompatibilities.  Altogether, if you expect
the library to evolve frequently or to be used by a large number of packages,
the symbols file will be useful.  Otherwise, it may be skipped.

(By the way I just remembered that the build failures created by the symbols
files can be prevented by setting DPKG_GENSYMBOLS_CHECK_LEVEL to zero; I do not
necessarly recommend it, but in some packages it may be a good compromise).

Have a nice day,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan