[Neurodebian-devel] python-expyriment uploaded to mentors.debian.net

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Hi Oliver,

Great to hear from you with expyriment source package.

We would be happy to review/sponsor it ... quick feedback to get the
ball rolling:

1. There seemed to be a slight hiccup with uploads
$ dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-expyriment/python-expyriment_0.7.0-2.dsc
dget: retrieving http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-expyriment/python-expyriment_0.7.0-2.dsc
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1454  100  1454    0     0   7005      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 14116
dget: retrieving http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-expyriment/python-expyriment_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 1995k  100 1995k    0     0   894k      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:--  938k
dget: retrieving http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-expyriment/python-expyriment_0.7.0-2.diff.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1219  100  1219    0     0   5868      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 11834
python-expyriment_0.7.0-2.dsc:
      Good signature found
   validating python-expyriment_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz
dscverify: invalid file length for python-expyriment_0.7.0.orig.tar.gz (wanted 2045454 got 2042893)
   validating python-expyriment_0.7.0-2.diff.gz
Validation FAILED!!


could you please verify that correct "version" reaches mentors?

2. Ideally all previous debian versions which haven't reached Debian proper
would be marked as UNRELEASED (not unstable).

3. there should be no pre-generated documentation under documentation/ --
only sphinx sources, and the rest built at package build time

4.  I would recomment to use 3.0 (quilt) source format, which would have
.debian.tar.gz instead of .diff.gz , e.g.

(git)novo:~exppsy/pandas[debian]
$> cat debian/source/format 
3.0 (quilt)

5. debian/copyright

checkout the current  standard for it -- tiny changes needed:
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0

6. ./documentation/sphinx/Testsuite.rst describes present tests... it would be
really nice if some of those (testing presence of fonts etc) sensible to run
under xvfb were excercised.  I have done the same for psychopy and
psychtoolbox-3.   you could check those packages for xvfb setup/dependencies to add.

7. it would be really nice if you could have followed
http://neuro.debian.net/blog/2012/2012-04-14_ndtools.html
and tested package building across multiple debian/ubuntu releases.

8. debian/control -- no need for "A " in short description -- it is assumed ;)

also "open-source and platform independent" another not needed -- if it
is in Debian, it is open-source,  platform independent - since you are on
Debian already, it is kinda irrelevant

also if you could provide Vcs- fields -- would be nice


Cheers!

On Mon, 03 Mar 2014, Oliver Lindemann wrote:

>    Hi,

>    we have recently release a new version of Expyriment, a light-weight
>    Python library for the script-based development of experiments
>    ([1]http://docs.expyriment.org). It might be interesting to you to include
>    Expyriment to the NeuroDebian repro. Please find all details about the
>    package at mentors.debian.net.
>    [2]http://mentors.debian.net/package/python-expyriment

>    Best,
>    Oliver Lindemann

>    On 03/03/2014 18:21, mentors.debian.net wrote:

>  Hi.

>  Your upload of the package 'python-expyriment' to mentors.debian.net was
>  successful. Others can now see it. The URL of your package is:
>  [3]http://mentors.debian.net/package/python-expyriment

>  The respective dsc file can be found at:
>  [4]http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-expyriment/python-expyriment_0.7.0-1.dsc

>  If you do not yet have a sponsor for your package you may want to go to
>  [5]http://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto/python-expyriment
>  and set the "Seeking a sponsor" option to highlight your package on the
>  welcome page.

>  You can also send an RFS (request for sponsorship) to the debian-mentors
>  mailing list. Your package page will give your suggestions on how to
>  send that mail.

>  Good luck in finding a sponsor!

>  Thanks,
-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D.
http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org
Senior Research Associate,     Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept.
Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834                       Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419
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