Re: [Sketch-list] New Debian package

[Daniel B. <dan...@pa...>]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Excellent, I am looking forward to see the package.

If you're curious, you can look at the package for unstable at
http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian/packages/skencil/0.6.17-2/

> I'll take it that you also will be the maintainer?

Yep.

> What got you interested in Skencil and how are you using it?

A friend of mine is using it and asked me in favour for an updated
package. It saw that the current packages is in need of some love, so I
did it. Although not much used so far, Skencil looks interesting to me.


Now to the technical part..

There are some things to do, first this (unfixed) ugly warning when
bytecompiling skencil:

---snipp---
/usr/lib/skencil/Plugins/Filters/Lib/drawfile.py:1295: FutureWarning:
hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4
and up
  self.x2 = 0x80000000
/usr/lib/skencil/Plugins/Filters/Lib/drawfile.py:1296: FutureWarning:
hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4
and up
  self.y2 = 0x80000000
---snapp---

Second, I made a few patches in 0.6.17-1 (see the attachments). It would
be nice if you can merge them upstream, so I can drop them for the next
version.

Third, there are some manpages (see the attachments) in the Debian
package, but not in upstream. I didn't check so far if they are
uptodate, however would be nice if you can merge them too.

...and last: skencil does breake FHS, architecture dependent (binaries)
should be placed in /usr/lib/skencil, independent files (scripts) should
be in /usr/share/skencil. Btw, you may want to renamed the remaining
leftovers from sketch to skencil, i.e. /usr/lib/skencil/Sketch.

Regards,
Daniel

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