[Debian-med-packaging] thanks and cdbs-dh-conversion (Was: Re: RFS: gwyddion 2.47-1 (in Debian Med SVN))

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 09:45:15PM +0100, Jan Beyer wrote:
> thank you very much for uploading!

You are welcome.
 
> Am 23.11.2016 um 09:52 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> > ...
> > Fine.  I have a further remark - which you can feel free to ignore since
> > I do not want to put my preferences on other DDs.  However, I recently
> > decided to not sponsor packages that are using cdbs.  The rationale is
> > that I personally do not understand how cdbs works if some tweaks are
> > needed and the documentation is either to sparse or to well hidden to
> > find any solution.  Since dh-r exists I'm migrating all packages I need
> > to touch to debhelper and thus get rid of cdbs fully.  This does not
> > mean that I will not upload gwyddion once pbuilder becomes usable again
> > but I would like you to consider switching to dh as well in the future.
> Though I remember vaguely having seen this discussion some time ago and I
> also understand and accept your reasoning (besides that dh-r seems to only
> work with R packages),

Yes, dh-r is for sure only for R packages.

> I am afraid, that my skills / time budget will not
> allow this conversion in the near future. I had a look at this a couple of
> months ago, but I couldn't find out how to translate the particularities of
> the current rules file to the dh format, so I stopped again. Maybe it's
> actually straightforward (if somebody has experience with this, I would
> definitely welcome any help on this!), but as long as it continues to work,
> I will probably not bother converting it.

I commited a suggested conversion to SVN.  A side-effect is that the
libs are now installed to
   /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
rather than
   /usr/lib
so you could make gwyddion multi-arch ready.

I added something I was stumbling about to d/changelog (header file
under /usr/lib instead of /usr/include).  Please have a look and
consider adopting it - if you are in doubt feel free to revert.

Hope this helps

       Andreas.

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