requesting sponsor for pd-cyclone

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 16:50 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 14:33, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 13, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:17, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 09:19 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:15:05AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> pd-cyclone is a huge library of all sorts of objects that are clones of
> >>>>> objects in Max/MSP4.5, Pd's proprietary cousin.  It also includes
> >>>>> utilities for importing Max files.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> pd-cyclone is a long-form dh package that is a wrapper to a very
> >>>>> complicated Make build system. pd-cxc is in
> >>>>> git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia.  It is a library without depends that
> >>>>> are new packages.  It builds on my i386, but it did not build on the
> >>>>> launchpad amd64 build machine, it died on this error, which has stumped
> >>>>> me:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> dpkg-genchanges -B -mUbuntu/amd64 Build Daemon <buildd at titanium.ppa>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ../pd-cyclone_0.1~alpha55-1~maverick_amd64.changes
> >>>>>
> >>>>> dpkg-genchanges: arch-specific upload - not including arch-independent
> >>>>> packages
> >>>>> dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or
> >>>>> directory
> >>>>
> >>>> It looks odd to me that you use no debhelper tools in the binary-arch
> >>>> target - only in the binary-indep one.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, that was the key.  This now builds on i386 and amd64 and is
> >>> ready to go.
> >>
> >> The git repository is not fixed.
> >
> > I am not sure I understand. What I see on git.debian.org is the same as what
> > I have on my machine, and I used git-buildpackage to make the source package
> > to submit to Launchpad:
> >
> > http://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/libdirs/+sourcepub/1362005/+listing-archive-extra
> 
> Oh it was fixed, my bad. But there is a large commit that changes many
> things at once (d634143), and the change was hidden there.
> 
> >
> >> Also, why do you use long-form debhelper?
> >
> >
> > Because I didn't see a way to do it with short-form. This library has a very
> > elaborate build system that I've tried for years to figure out.  Instead
> > I've found the best way is to wrap it into something more understandable,
> > and long-form seemed the easiest way to do that.
> 
> Indeed, the makefile is quite convoluted. It also can't handle it when
> the user passes CFLAGS and other variables. Also, it sets -j4
> unconditionally.

> On further inspection, the package seems to bundle the pddp source.
> Are riddle, sickle and ViCious more code copies? We should not use
> code copies. We need to avoid using them.

This is how cyclone is released.  The code in 'pddp', 'riddle', and
'ViCious' are unused.  The 'pddp' code shared some code with pd-pddp,
but not all.  The code in 'sickle' is fully part of pd-cyclone and used.

.hc

> 
> >
> > I am open to changing it to short-form, but I don't see a clear way to do it
> 
> I don't really prefer short form, but it is just a matter of using
> override_dh_foo targets.