[Debian-med-packaging] Requests for Sponsorship/upload

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 07:12:23PM +1100, Kevin Murray wrote:
> - python-skbio: updated such that arches which always will fail (due to missing
>   sse3, or other unsatisfied dependencies) are removed. This seems to be what
>   was preventing a testing transition

That's not enough and not even needed: what's blocking the testing
transision is the presence of non up-to-date binaries, not the build
failure by itself.  What you have to do is to ask for removal of the old
i386 binaries.

Also, requiring SSE3 is no good: that's a (RC) bug by itself.  The
package should be able to build (and run?) on all amd64 supported by
Debian.  See the several threads about this in debian-devel (one even
last week or so...)

> - libzstd: updated to latest upstream version. Packages an additional binary
>   (pzstd, a parallelised CLI tool) within the existing zstd binary package.

* changelog says nothing about most of the changes you did:
  + change email
  + build pzstd
  + new mangpage for pzstd
* please use d/zstd.install to install that binary, instead of plain cp
  + also that line in that d/*.install file could just be reduced to a
  single 'usr/bin' without anything else
* please
    `cd contrib/pzstd/ && make pzstd` => `$(MAKE) -C contrib/pzstd pzstd`
* you have a debian/docs, which behaves weirdly, it's installing those 2
  file only in the -dev package, whilst I think some people would be
  interesting having them in all binaries.  Or if having them only in
  the -dev is something you want, please rename that file to
  d/libzstd-dev.docs to make it clear to me and avoid ambiguities.
* in d/rules, you use DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH but that variable is not
  inizialized; you're lucky most builders use dpkg-buildpackage which
  exports the variable, but you can't rely on that; therefor you need to
  put a
    DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
  on top of d/rules.

> P.S., I've changed my email for public lists and such like to
> kdmfoss at gmail.com, as the level of spam I received was getting ridiculous. My
> old mail remains operational for now.

yeah, that's what happens to all of us :)
only salvation is a good spam filter :D

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                        Mattia Rizzolo

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