[csw-maintainers] Package "gts" in testing

[Dagobert Michelsen]

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?


Best regards

   -- Dago