requesting sponsor for pd-cyclone

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 14:03, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 16:50 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 14:33, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Nov 13, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:17, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 09:19 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:15:05AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> pd-cyclone is a huge library of all sorts of objects that are clones of
>> >>>>> objects in Max/MSP4.5, Pd's proprietary cousin.  It also includes
>> >>>>> utilities for importing Max files.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> pd-cyclone is a long-form dh package that is a wrapper to a very
>> >>>>> complicated Make build system. pd-cxc is in
>> >>>>> git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia.  It is a library without depends that
>> >>>>> are new packages.  It builds on my i386, but it did not build on the
>> >>>>> launchpad amd64 build machine, it died on this error, which has stumped
>> >>>>> me:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> dpkg-genchanges -B -mUbuntu/amd64 Build Daemon <buildd at titanium.ppa>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> ../pd-cyclone_0.1~alpha55-1~maverick_amd64.changes
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> dpkg-genchanges: arch-specific upload - not including arch-independent
>> >>>>> packages
>> >>>>> dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or
>> >>>>> directory
>> >>>>
>> >>>> It looks odd to me that you use no debhelper tools in the binary-arch
>> >>>> target - only in the binary-indep one.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks, that was the key.  This now builds on i386 and amd64 and is
>> >>> ready to go.
>> >>
>> >> The git repository is not fixed.
>> >
>> > I am not sure I understand. What I see on git.debian.org is the same as what
>> > I have on my machine, and I used git-buildpackage to make the source package
>> > to submit to Launchpad:
>> >
>> > http://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/libdirs/+sourcepub/1362005/+listing-archive-extra
>>
>> Oh it was fixed, my bad. But there is a large commit that changes many
>> things at once (d634143), and the change was hidden there.
>>
>> >
>> >> Also, why do you use long-form debhelper?
>> >
>> >
>> > Because I didn't see a way to do it with short-form. This library has a very
>> > elaborate build system that I've tried for years to figure out.  Instead
>> > I've found the best way is to wrap it into something more understandable,
>> > and long-form seemed the easiest way to do that.
>>
>> Indeed, the makefile is quite convoluted. It also can't handle it when
>> the user passes CFLAGS and other variables. Also, it sets -j4
>> unconditionally.
>
>> On further inspection, the package seems to bundle the pddp source.
>> Are riddle, sickle and ViCious more code copies? We should not use
>> code copies. We need to avoid using them.
>
> This is how cyclone is released.  The code in 'pddp', 'riddle', and
> 'ViCious' are unused.  The 'pddp' code shared some code with pd-pddp,
> but not all.  The code in 'sickle' is fully part of pd-cyclone and used.
>
> .hc
>
>>
>> >
>> > I am open to changing it to short-form, but I don't see a clear way to do it
>>
>> I don't really prefer short form, but it is just a matter of using
>> override_dh_foo targets.

It looks like it's going to be a busy week. I'll continue checking pd
packages (hopefully) late next week.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler