Re: [octave forge] releasing

[Colin Macdonald]

On 2019-03-25 1:38 a.m., Andrew Janke wrote:
> On 3/24/19 3:14 AM, Olaf Till wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:27:07PM +0100, Olaf Till wrote:
> > > check licenses ('licensecheck -r' plus some manual checks)
Added to wiki 
https://wiki.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Reviewing_Octave-Forge_packages

> > 'pkg' doesn't seem to care for file permissions even in system wide
> > installations. So it should be checked that the package files are
> > readable/executable by all users. A current maintainer Makefile
> > automatically sets the correct permissions in tarball creation so that
> > later checking isn't necessary.

Added to wiki.
> > Contains no hidden files, results of configure runs, etc.. Again, this
> > should be cared for by the maintainer Makefile so that later checking
> > isn't necessary.

Added to wiki.

> > Version number in src/configure.ac, if this file is present.

Added to wiki.

> I've added a "pkj review" command to Packajoozle to do automatable parts 
> of package distribution review.

Cool, tried it and filed some issues/requests.

best,
Colin