[pd-discuss] Packaging pdcalc for Debian?

Tue Dec 29 09:18:27 UTC 2015

Hi.

I just joined this list, the reason is that I would like to identify all
"public domain"-ish works in Norway and this communinty seem to be
focused on such topics.  I use the term "public domain"-ish because the
Norwegian legal system do not have the public domain concept, the moral
rights in copyright never expire here in Norway, as far as I know.

As I am a Debian developer, and prefer to know that the tools I use are
available in and tested using the infrastructure of Debian, I would like
to see what it takes to get pdcalc included in Debian.  I created
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/809306 > in preparation for this.

I've created a Debian package locally, after working around the broken
setup.py script (See <URL: https://github.com/okfn/pdcalc/issues/26 >.
I have not yet found any documentation in git, so I have no idea how to
test if the package is working.  Can someone please add an example to
the README.md file, and explain in it where the input data is supposed
to come from and what it should look like?  It would allow me to get
started on testing the code.

Also, the copyright status of the source is not mentioned anywhere in
git, as far as I can tell.  This will make it hard to get the source
past the team checking new packages before inclusion into Debian (aka
the ftpmasters).  I created
<URL: https://github.com/okfn/pdcalc/issues/28 > to track this issue.
I noticed <URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdcalc > claim the license
is MIT, but did not find any traces of this in the source itself.  There
is also <URL: https://github.com/okfn/pdcalc/pull/13 > untouched since
2014-09-29 adding the MIT license to the README file, which I suspect
might be on hold because the license is not yet determined.

Last, what is the version number of pdcalc?  The pypi site mention
version 0.7, but I find no tags in the git repository mentioning any
version numbers at all.

I would also like to adjust pdcalc to work for Norway, but first I need
to be able to get it running at all, hence the request for
documentations and examples.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen