Creation of official Debian packages (lib file names are unconventional)

[lopippo]

Greetings,

we use the Cutelee project in our software and I would like to package the libraries for Debian. When using the CMakeLists.txt file shipped with the source, the shared objects that are produced are named cutelee_defaultfilters.so, cutelee_defaulttags.so, cutelee_i18ntags.so and cutelee_loadertags.so. Is there a reason that the 'lib' prefix has been omitted? In Debian, and GNU/Linux in general, shared library files have their name prefixed with 'lib'. That means that I would have to patch the CMake-based Cutelee configuration files.

Can you tell me the rationale about the current situation and if it would be troublesome to have the library files named in a conventional manner ? Or am I completely missing something here ?

Thank you for these useful libraries!
Sincerely
Filippo

[lopippo]

Ah! I think I get it: the non-lib-prefixed shared objects are private libs, while the conventionally-named libs are public. Right ? Close this if this is it. Sorry for the noise.
Sincerely
Filippo

[dantti]

They are actually plugins, you might be able to copy debian packaging scripts from Grantlee which used to be there too

[lopippo]

Yes, thank you for your response. I figured that out. I have questions:

In Debian, before a package is admitted in our servers, we first check the copyright status of each source file. I have found that some files do not have any copyright notice, but they are found in directories where the other files have a copyright ownership notice:

Might be same as other files by Kelly
======= File: examples/htmlapps/localrequestmanager.cpp
======= File: examples/htmlapps/localrequestmanager.h
======= File: examples/htmlapps/main.cpp
======= File: examples/htmlapps/mainwindow.cpp
======= File: examples/htmlapps/mainwindow.h
======= File: examples/htmlapps/templatereply.cpp
======= File: examples/htmlapps/templatereply.h

Might be same as other files by Kelly
======= File: textdocument/tests/coverageobject.cpp
======= File: textdocument/tests/coverageobject.h

Might be same as other files by Kelly
======= File: templates/tests/coverageobject.cpp
======= File: templates/tests/coverageobject.h

Can you confirm that these files are indeed copyrighted by Stephen Kelly ?

Thank you for your help
Filippo

[lopippo]

Another Debian packaging-related question: who should I put as the upstream contact for cutelee ? Thank you.

[lopippo]

There are some more files without copyright notice:

======= File: scripts/fix-clang-format.py
======= File: scripts/makesnaphotdocs.sh
======= File: scripts/scripts/makerelease.sh

And also the whole set of images in examples/textedit/images.

[lopippo]

Hello,
I seem to understand that the cmake/* and dox/* files are copyrighted by you, Daniel Nicoletti dantti12@gmail.com. Am I right ? Please, check also the copyright for the files in my previous messages.
Thank you

[lopippo]

No answers ? Cannot package for Debian, then ?

[dantti]

all of those files you should be able to tell who is the copyright holder by looking at git history, a believe it would be Kelly
And yes you can put me on the upstream contact.

[dantti]

Even cmake and dox looks like were added by him.