uploaded first pkg: pd-motex

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 19, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> On 19/08/10 13:36, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 23:14 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 02:40:09PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:16:09PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 15:35:10 (CEST), Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> README.txt and LICENSE.txt are part of the Pd library format.
>>>>>>> They are part of the library, and the Help Browser (aka the
>>>>>>> library browser) looks for them to display them.  The library
>>>>>>> format is basically a directory with files in it, and a subdir
>>>>>>> called 'examples'.  That install target actually serves to
>>>>>>> enforce that all the standard files are there.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In this library, I could replace the file with a symlink to
>>>>>>> ../../../ common-licenses/GPL-2, but other libraries might have
>>>>>>> different licenses so this wouldn't always be the case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess that both the license and the README.txt actually belongs
>>>>>> to /usr/share/doc/$package, that's what debian policy tells us to
>>>>>> do. IIRC, documentation browsers like dhelp and the default
>>>>>> webserver's configurations publish /usr/share/doc so that users
>>>>>> can browse package documentation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So moving these files and symlink them to where the package
>>>>>> expect them seems to me the right thing to do.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is wrong, actually:
>>>>>
>>>>> Code must not depend on /usr/share/doc existing on the machine, so
>>>>> when a file is needed both by runtime and below /usr/share/doc  
>>>>> then
>>>>> the actual file should be placed elsewhere and a symlink be placed
>>>>> below /usr/share/doc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure if this is explicitly clarified in Debian Policy or  
>>>>> only a
>>>>> result of close-reading FHS (File Hierarchy Standard) or some  
>>>>> such.
>>>>> Perhaps look for sections regarding example scripts.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In this context, I think the above suggestion makes the most sense.
>>>> So here's my plan:
>>>>
>>>> - make the LICENSE.txt file into a symlink, if GPL, BSD or other
>>>> common license
>>>> - make usr/share/doc/pd-motex/README.txt a symlink to the one in  
>>>> the
>>>> library
>>>>
>>>> I'd need to remove LICENSE.txt then make the symllnk.  What's the
>>>> best way to remove the file?  I could patch the Makefile to remove
>>>> the line in 'make install' that installs LICENSE.txt the add a link
>>>> in debian/links.  Is there some easy/proper way in debhelper to  
>>>> just
>>>> remove an installed file?
>>>
>>> Your questions makes me suspect that you did not notice my earier
>>> response in this thread (even earlier than above quoted one).
>>>
>>> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:54:32 +0200
>>> Message-ID: <20100817095432.GG7578 at jones.dk>
>>>
>>> There I describe how I do similarly with Sugar packages.
>>>
>>> To answer more directly to your questions: No, I believe there is no
>>> debhelper routine specifically for this.  Possibly you can make  
>>> dh_link
>>> force overwrite existing object, but I find my proposed approach of
>>> replacing only if identical safer.
>>
>> Ok, I did it with an 'rm' in debian/rules, hope that's ok.  I  
>> pushed the
>> commit.
>
> So, pd-motex should be ready?


Everything is ready from my end. :-)  Its feeling quite polished, plus  
all the rest too.

.hc


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