[maemo-developers] My first attempt: Give feedback on packaging, please (exif/libexif-ports)

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

Good stuff Oskar, I will take a look and report back.

Jeremiah

On Feb 12, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Oskar Welzl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> last weekend I finally decided to port my first Debian package ever  
> to Maemo.
>
> In extras-devel for diablo, you now find 'exif [1]' and 'libexif  
> [2]', both with intl. translations (as exif-intl) and debug packages.
>
> The only reason why I did it at all was to learn:
> learn about Maemo packages, learn about Debian packages, about dpkg  
> and thelike, about make-files... I knew nothing about all this until  
> I started on Friday, and (lib)exif is a nice project because it's  
> small and doesn't depend on anything.
> (The Maemo-related documentation is great, btw. I really loved it.  
> From setting up scratchbox to telling me about Application Manager  
> categories.... Everything was there. Thanks to those who wrote all  
> that!)
>
> While I'm absolutely proud of myself that I managed to create  
> something that the autobuilder accepts and the Application Manager  
> installs (and uninstalls!) without any prior knowledge, I'm still  
> sure my work in debian/rules and debian/control could be improved.  
> Beginners *always* make the same mistakes, don't they?
>
> So I'd be very happy if somebody could have a look at the packages  
> and provide some gentle feedback. (Basically it's really just these  
> two files, rules and control. There's no changes to the original  
> source code other than patches provided by the original Debian  
> maintainers).
> Don't hesitate to install it. It shouldn't break your tablet
> much.
>
> What I'm looking for is both
> a) things that are plain wrong and shouldn't be done that way, even  
> though it happens to work in this particular case. (I'm not sure  
> about the way I handled CFLAGS in debian/rules, for example. I  
> copypasted this part, but still...)
> b) things that are technically correct but are not The Right Thing  
> to do (or not polite?) in a Debian-centric universe. (Like the way I  
> moved the translation files into a package of their own, the fact  
> that I put my name as maintainer even though I changed only a  
> little, possible issues with the libexif-version that'll be part of  
> Fremantle...)
>
> So: If you'd try to make this *the* perfect package, what would you  
> change?
>
> Thx,
> Oskar
>
> [1] http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/diablo/free/source/e/exif/
> [2] http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/diablo/free/source/libe/libexif/
>
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