[csw-maintainers] Package "gts" in testing

[John Ellson]

On 05/18/2009 04:45 PM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Am 18.05.2009 um 21:28 schrieb John Ellson:
>> There is a new package:
>>
>>    "gts:   GNU Triangulated Surface Library"
>>
>> now available in testing.
>>
>> This is my first package.    It was built  with mgar, so a review of 
>> my mgar/pkg/gts/ tree in svn would also be appreciated.
>
> Some suggestions:
> - Please use for SourceForge
>     MASTER_SITES = $(SF_MIRRORS)
>   For several big sites the URLs have been stored centrally.
> - For SourceForge the upstream watch works slightly different due to the
>   structure of the download page. Please use
>     UPSTREAM_MASTER_SITES = $(SF_PROJECT_SHOWFILE)=66612   (change to 
> your id)
>     UPSTREAM_USE_SF = 1
> - You are using a static depend CSWgts.depend and dynamic depends with
>   REQUIRED_PKGS. They both serve the same purpose and defining both
>   will ignore REQUIRED_PKGS. Please remove CSWgts.depend and the notion
>   of it in DISTFILES.
> - You are using a static gspec file CSWgts.gspec. As the bitname and 
> pkgname
>   are the same as the GARNAME the defaults will be fine. You can safely
>   remove the gspec-file and the notion of it in DISTFILES without change
>   in behaviour. Static gspec files are also old-style and the newer
>   variants from
> <http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gar/wiki/DynamicPackageFiles>
>   should be used wherever possible.
> - .la-files are already excluded during merge by default. See
> <http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/gar.mk#L549> 
>
>   for details
> - The NO_ISAEXEC line is only important when you build multiple ISAs
>   (like the commented out 64 bit ISA with BUILD64=1). When building only
>   one ISA it does nothing.
>
> These are a lot of comments. Please take them as result of the, umh, 
> imperfect
> documentation. Which documentation have you missed most on your path?
> What can I do to improve your getting started experience with GAR?


OK,  Got those.  New gts packages posted to /home/testing.

I'll work on some notes about GAR for you....

John