SuperCollider package

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:23, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/10/20 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 04:02, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/10/19 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:15, Dan S <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 2010/10/9 Alexandre Quessy <alexandre at quessy.net>:
>>>>>> Hello Felipe and the team,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2010/10/6 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>>>>>>> On 09/21/2010 01:40 PM, Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>>>>>>>> There are quite a few lintian warnings, but I tried the vim plugin and
>>>>>>>> it works.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, quite a bit. The package needs a lot of work. First of all,
>>>>>>> debian/copyright needs some serious overhaul. Are you familiar with the
>>>>>>> codebase? If so, please take a look at that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No much familiar, no. Dan would know better than me.
>>>>>
>>>>> What sort of overhaul is needed? There are quite a few different
>>>>> copyrights asserted, making it fairly bulky, but I don't spot any
>>>>> wrongness.
>>>>
>>>> For starters, a whole lot of paths are wrong (they are missing the
>>>> common/ subdir prefix). Hmm, maybe serious overhaul is an
>>>> overstatement, but getting the right paths is a must, and made me
>>>> doubt the overall quality of the file, perhaps indicative of neglect.
>>>
>>> Ah thankyou. Yes that is neglect but fairly recent neglect, we
>>> reorganised the folder structure before 3.4 but it seems we forgot the
>>> paths in the copyright folder.
>>
>> Great.
>>
>>>
>>> OK I've fixed it now in svn.
>>> <http://supercollider.svn.sf.net/viewvc/supercollider/packages/ubuntu/copyright?r1=10329&r2=10403>
>>> Feel free to pull it in. (I'd like to help with the debian packaging
>>> git - could I be given access or should I start my own git and send
>>> pull requests?)
>>
>> No, join our team and then clone the ssh address of our repository.
>>
>>>
>>>>>>> Where did you get the packaging from? Upstream?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes. I took it from the upstream SVN repository. Dan has done one more
>>>>>> - at least - after I took it, though. He might have removed some
>>>>>> files. I specifically told him about some proprietary files that he
>>>>>> removed. I'll double check this and let you know.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If Dan would tell us what he changed meanwhile, that would help. Dan?
>>>>>
>>>>> I removed common/Source/lang/LangPrimSource/HID_Utilities/* since that
>>>>> had an apple copyright with a dubious gpl compatibility, and (in the
>>>>> svn packaging info) removed the apple entry from debian/copyrights as
>>>>> a result.
>>>>> (To be more accurate: We have a script that makes a pruned
>>>>> linux-source .tar.gz, so what I did was to add the folder to the list
>>>>> of what gets pruned out. The folder is still there in the upstream and
>>>>> used on mac.)
>>>>
>>>> Where is this pruned linux-source tar.gz? Our repository seems to have
>>>> the SuperCollider-3.4-Source-With-Extras-linux.tar.gz file from
>>>> sourceforge with md5sum 20631117a7e9fb1c862833ce424ce9f4. Should we be
>>>> using the without extras variant? Or maybe even another tarball?
>>>
>>> With-extras should be fine, however so far I've only tweaked the
>>> not-with-extras one to remove the Apple files
>>> (SuperCollider-3.4-rev2-Source-linux.tar.gz at
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.4/ ).
>>> We're hoping to get 3.4.1 released very soon so I'll include these
>>> tweaks in that.
>>
>> What are the extras? The without extras tarball seems to be much smaller.
>
> Actually I think we should not include the extras for now, because
> that could muddy the process.

OK. So, if I understand correctly, we should use the -rev2 version
without extras?

> The extras are essentially third-party
> addons, two types of thing: plugins for the audio server, and add-ons
> for the language. They're both GPL but the copyrights and other things
> would be a bit awkward, and there are additional dependencies and
> other stuff. (The extras are more loosely policed than the core.)

Are they also released indepently of the core? If so, we could package
it separately, which may simplify things.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler