Re: Bug#757180: RFS: pw3270 [NMU] [ITP] -- an IBM 3270 Terminal emulator for gtk

Antonio Terceiro <terceiro-rbQqYLFhARarAoSaWepnNNi2O/[email protected]> Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:42:51 -0300

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.portuguese
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 11:44:00PM -0300, Fábio Lima wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my packages: lib3270, lib3270-dev,
> libreoffice-extension-pw3270, oorexx, oorexx-dev, php5-tn3270, pw3270,
> pw3270-plugin-dbus and pw3270-plugin-rexx.
> 
> Upstream Author: Perry Werneck <[email protected]>
> URL            :
> http://www.softwarepublico.gov.br/dotlrn/clubs/pw3270/one-community?page_num=0
> License        : GPL v2
> 
> Pw3270 is an IBM 3270 Terminal emulator for gtk. It can be used to
> communicate with any IBM host that supports 3270-style connections over
> TELNET.
> It features a rich GTK+3 interface, ssl connections, sending/receiving
> files to/from mainframe and bindings for libreoffice, php, dbus and oorexx.
> It was developed by Perry Werneck, under request of Banco do Brasil S.A.,
> the major bank in Brazil and a great user os free software.
> 
> Binaries and sources can be obtained from:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/PerryWerneck:/pw3270/xUbuntu_14.04/

oorex won't build from source with sbuild. The changelog says it was prepared
for 'stable', while every package in Debian must start at 'unstable'. Even if I
add a changelog entry myself with the correct distribution, it won't build from
source:

# Add here commands to compile the package.
fromdos bootstrap
make: fromdos: Command not found
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 127
debian/rules:22: recipe for target 'build-stamp' failed
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

It is missing build dependencies.

pw3270 needs oorex to build, so there is no point in looking at it before
oorex is in shape and uploaded.

I'm sorry, but you have to do some work on the packages so they are fit for
inclusion in Debian. We won't just take random packages and include them in the
official Debian archive. Are _you_ going to maintain them?  Neither source
package has your name on it as maintainer.

When I offered to review and sponsor packages for you I was assuming you would
be working on them, not just requesting to upload packages that you got
somewhere else. You didn't even test building them on Debian unstable!

I am still willing to help you, but you need to do some homework first. I would
start by reading the material in the packaging-tutorial package that I pointed
to you. If you don't understand something, or need any type of help, just ask.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]>

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