[MIR] nux

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli]

Followed the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionProcess and all requirements are complete for Main Inclusion for nux.

Availability: in universe
Rationale: Nux is a new toolkit used by unity, which will be the default interface in natty.
Security: no security issue known right now
Quality assurance: canonical dx team is upstreamed and strongly committed to that package. There is also a testsuite run during build.
UI standards: no UI, just a graphical toolkit.
Dependencies: all in main
Standards compliance: follow FHS guidelines
Maintenance: canonical dx team is doing it
Description of the package:
Description: Visual rendering toolkit for real-time applications
 Nux is a graphical user interface toolkit for applications that mixes opengl
 hardware acceleration with high quality visual rendering.
 .
 This package contains shared libraries to be used by applications.

Note: the package is using a shlibs file and not a symbol file because the exported symbols are different between arch and nux has a weekly release (with no API/ABI stability), making updating the symbols file quite difficult on every arch before uploading to buildd (only i386 here).

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Regarding arch-specific symbols, you should be able to have, say, libnux-0.9-0.symbols.amd64 and so on.

Notes:
* It looks like there is a leftover libnux-dev.install file that can be deleted.
* The copyright file is formatted incorrectly. I'll attach one that should be right.
* The build of code itself is very clean, but when building documentation, there are lots of warnings.
* You mentioned a test suite, but I just see an (essentially) empty tests directory.

Oddities:
* When building in a pbuilder chroot, I got lots of warnings like the following: "dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol XChangeProperty used by debian/libnux-0.9-0/usr/lib/libnux-graphics-0.9.so.0.900.4 found in none of the libraries.". It gave these for several X, pthread, and gl symbols in the various libraries. http://www.elpauer.org/?p=439 looks like it explains the issue a bit and says that it is not fatal, just may slow things down when starting up.

But actual packaging and such looks fine, and the DX team will provide good maintainership. Approved.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Here's a machine-readable version of the copyright file.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

on the symbol file, as told:
Note: the package is using a shlibs file and not a symbol file because the exported symbols are different between arch and nux has a weekly release (with no API/ABI stability), making updating the symbols file quite difficult on every arch before uploading to buildd (only i386 here).

if you want to update it each week, you can (same for armel and such…) :)

* It looks like there is a leftover libnux-dev.install file that can be deleted.
-> oupss, deleted. Thanks!

* The copyright file is formatted incorrectly. I'll attach one that should be right
Hum, ok, I strictly follow the wiki page pointed here. Maybe this one should be fixed. Got your file, thanks!

* The build of code itself is very clean, but when building documentation, there are lots of warnings.
Yeah, doxygen and upstream aren't friend :)

* You mentioned a test suite, but I just see an (essentially) empty tests directory.
It seems to have been removed last week, weird, will check upstream

* on the odditie, can you file a bug upstream, please?

Thanks for the review :)

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I filed bug 680168 about the linker warnings.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Promoted (actually, the binaries seemed to have been promoted already, but the source was anomalously sitting in universe).