[DebianGIS-dev] [DebianGIS] Specific packages for SAR and earth observation

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi David,

Il giorno Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:15:28 +0100
David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> ha scritto:

> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:03:28 +0100, Antonio Valentino wrote:
> 
> > In the next days I plan to create projects in the debian git repo
> > for the following SW packages (each has an open ITP)
> > 
> > polsarpro: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606876
> > mapready: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606881
> > snaphu: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606882
> > gsdview: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606884
> > 
> > The idea is to put them all under the 
> > 
> > git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass
> > 
> > and set the Maintainer field of the control file to 
> > 
> > Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > 
> > Please let me know if there is some problem in doing this or if
> > there is some different idea.
> 
> That's fine.

OK

> > Please also note that, for the polsarpro package (only), I will put
> > under VCS only the debian directory since polsarpro orig archive is
> > quite large (227M) and includes about 166M of PDF files, binaries
> > (172M unpacked) and also the ActiveTcl8.4.13.0.261555-win32.exe SW
> > distribution (21M).
> > 
> > Unfortunately a pure source code archive is not available.
> 
> You should strip all the binaries and PDFs from the tarball. This is
> a common issue in Debian (think of java packages where most of
> upstreams embed *.jar files).

Unfortunately PDF files also include the user manual end the reference
documentation of functions the program provides.
The program GUI has a menu from which the user can select the document
to show (the document is displayed in the pdf-reder program).

Sources of PDF documents are not provided so I think need to have PDFs
around.


Summary of the unpacked archive:

binary programs: 172M (can be stripped) 
PDFs: 166M (it is better to stay in IMHO)
sources and data files: 71M
ActiveTcl: 21M  (can be stripped) 


Do you think 166M + 71M unpacked are a reasonable size to put on the
VCS?

> To do this, please create a "get-orig-source" target in debian/rules,
> which should do all the needed steps to obtain a source-only (and
> *free*!) tarball. Also, your package should have a "special" version.
> Let's say it is version 1.0-1, it should become 1.0+ds-1 (+ds means
> "debian source" -- and 1.0+ds-2, 1.0+ds-3, and so on). You should
> take care of mangling the source version in debian/watch as well
> (read about dversionmangle).

I currently have a get-orig-source target to repack the zip archive
into a tar.gz.
Of course I could improve it to strip unnecessary files.

> Once you've stripped all of those things, I believe the tarball will
> have a reasonable size to be committed ;)

see above

> Also, since you're going to use git, please read about pristine-tar
> to store orig tarballs inside the repository itself.

OK

> I'm available if you need help about the repackaging :)

Thank you very much.


ciao

-- 
Antonio Valentino
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