[Soc-coordination] Fwd: Status Report for Packaging elementary Software, Week 6

[Shnatsel .]

Status Report for Packaging elementary Software, Week 7

Without stable upstream releases of the remaining software I have
switched to making preliminary packaging and investigating potential
blockers such as missing dependencies, etc.

One of the issues I've discovered was a huge download size for the GTK
theme. It requires "Open Sans" and "Raleway" fonts to be installed,
which are currently shipped by "texlive-fonts-extra" package. The
problem is, texlive-fonts-extra combined with its dependencies is a
~300Mb download and occupies ~750Mb when unpacked. I have opened a bug
at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=753839 and was
told to move those fonts into a separate source package, which I will
proceed to do.
The preliminary packaging for the elementary GTK theme that I used so
far can be found at
https://code.launchpad.net/~pantheon-debian/pantheon-debian/elementary-theme
It has incomplete copyright information right now because it was
imported to RCS in 2007 and there's a number of contributions
predating that.

I have also finalized my packaging for Noise, the music player, that I
started last week. Its architecture is non-trivial so I got involved
upstream to better understand it. I've fixed a number of upstream bugs
while at it (https://bugs.launchpad.net/noise/+bug/1337312,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/noise/+bug/1286944,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/noise/+bug/1337291) and discovered a
non-obvious but critical bug in my packaging which I proceeded to fix.
The package is now in the NEW queue.

And finally, my "maya-calendar" package has passed FTP Masters' review
this week.

Regards,
--
Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff