[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-stk ?

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Hi Julien,

Sorry for the big delay to reply to your message.  It got out of my 
radar.

* Julien Bect <julien.bect at centralesupelec.fr> [2015-07-22 11:09]:

> Now, I have two questions :
>
> 1) The default commit message for the initial commit refers to an ITP 
> bug number. Does it mean that I have to file an ITP report ? I have 
> tried yesterday but got a failure from "reportbug" (see log below).

It seems that you are having trouble in querying the BTS.  Try 
reportbug with option --no-query-bts.

Just a remark: in the reportbug log that you sent to us, I read the this 
for the package synopsis: "STK is a (not so) Small Toolbox for Kriging". 
According to the Best Packaging Practices of the Debian Developer's 
Reference, "[the synoposis] is a noun phrase minus articles, as opposed 
to a verb phrase".  It would then be better to use just "(not so) Small 
Toolbox for Kriging".

> 2) I am ready to start fixing the default file generated by 
> make-octave-forge-debpkg. For that I will need a public git repo, so 
> that I can ask for help on this list... Do I create one for myself 
> (e.g., inside the stk project on sourceforge) or can I get one in the 
> pkg-octave project ?

Please, create a Git repository at Alioth, such that we can share it.  It 
has been a long time since I created a repo, but I guess that the 
instructions in the page below are ok:

https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#Separate_project

Create the repo in the directory /git/pkg-octave/ and be sure that it has 
the correct group ownership and rights.

Rafael

1. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis