[needs-packaging] inky

[Dave Jones]

The inky package provides support for a variety of e-Ink displays on the Raspberry Pi (specifically the inky pHAT, wHAT, and Impression).

URL: https://github.com/pimoroni/inky
License: MIT
Notes:

This package should provide the Python 3 compatible libraries, offline documentation, utilities, examples (split out into its own binary package as they're considerably larger than the library itself), and extras (for working with Fritzing and GIMP).

[Dave Jones (waveform)]

Test packages (with ~ppa extension to be removed from the version) are built in ppa:waveform/eink at:

https://launchpad.net/~waveform/+archive/ubuntu/eink

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

* There are lintian complains that could be addressed:

P: inky source: insecure-copyright-format-uri http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ [debian/copyright]
P: inky source: silent-on-rules-requiring-root [debian/control]
X: inky source: upstream-metadata-file-is-missing

* Why is python3-inky restricted to armhf and arm64? I would put it under Arch: all. Without the hardware, the library is probably useless, but I wouldn't use that use reason to restrict it to specific architectures.

* sphinx/conf.py says copyright 2019 and library/setup.py says copyright 2017.

* fix-builtin-mock.patch contains a change to MOCK_MODULES which is not part of the forwarded merge request. It should probably moved into a separate patch and forwarded upstream.

[Dave Jones (waveform)]

I've tacked the MOCK_MODULES change onto the upstream PR (https://github.com/pimoroni/inky/pull/151).

The copyright discrepancies are almost certainly because bits will have been copied'n'pasted from various of the pimoroni repos to make up this one but I'll update the d/copyright to cover the range.

The arch restriction is indeed artificial but not uncommon for Pi-specific libraries (because dependencies like RPi.GPIO have a tendency to do things like throw errors when imported on non-pis). Still, I'll remove it.

I've updated the d/copyright URI, and r-r-r in d/control. No idea about the upstream-metadata stuff, but it's a "pedantic" tag and so ignorable for now.

Updated package should be in the PPA shortly.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

No complains for this version. Uploaded inky 1.4.0-0ubuntu1.

Normally it is better to have separate changes in separate merge request. Let's see if upstream is fine with bundling the MOCK_MODULES change.

"lintian-explain-tags upstream-metadata-file-is-missing" explains the upstream metadata file and points among others to https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata. Fixing this complain can wait.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.