Bug#705068: Please provide dh-make library for non-perl packaging helpers
Control: tag -1 help Almost 10 years later, I think it is obvious the dh-make-perl authors (me included) aren't very keen on separating the parts that are specific to the Debian Perl Group and providing a more universal library that can be used by others. -=| Thomas Koch, 08.05.2013 19:49:19 +0200 |=- > Some clarifications: > > There is for example a lot of logic in the package > DhMakePerl::Command::Packaging that I'd like to reuse for java packaging. For > that I'd need a reliable API and some logic would need to extracted from > larger functions into separate functions: > > * get_developer(), get_wnpp() are fine for reuse > * fill_maintainer() has hardcoded reference to perl team > * set_package_name() contains logic to fall back to create a perl library > package name > * extract_desc() contains useful logic to format the long package description > * ... > > I think it's fine to keep all this logic in the dh-make-perl package. It > would > just be helpful to have a clear distinction between reusable code > that could be used for languages other than perl and code specific > for packaging perl. Right. These are all good ideas. They "just" need someone to implement them. We won't, it seems, so I am tagging the bugreport with 'help'. If I was going to do it, I'd try to split all DPG-specific parts into a ::Packaging::DPG or a similar package, sublcassing ::Packaging, and change dh-make-perl to use that. Then another tool, say dh-make-java, would need to provide ::Packaging::Java, subclassing ::Packaging with Java-specific functions. Perhaps there are some perl-specific things outside ::Packaging too. The whole thing involves identifying domain specific parts, some shuffling around and a lot of testing. I hope people who need this functionality would be able to spend the time to try it. -- Damyan
Bug#705068: Please provide dh-make library for non-perl packaging helpers
Some clarifications: There is for example a lot of logic in the package DhMakePerl::Command::Packaging that I'd like to reuse for java packaging. For that I'd need a reliable API and some logic would need to extracted from larger functions into separate functions: * get_developer(), get_wnpp() are fine for reuse * fill_maintainer() has hardcoded reference to perl team * set_package_name() contains logic to fall back to create a perl library package name * extract_desc() contains useful logic to format the long package description * ... I think it's fine to keep all this logic in the dh-make-perl package. It would just be helpful to have a clear distinction between reusable code that could be used for languages other than perl and code specific for packaging perl. I'm just starting to learn perl, so it'll take some time until I can help with this. Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705068: Please provide dh-make library for non-perl packaging helpers
On Tuesday 09 April 2013 19:01:20 Thomas Koch wrote: I'm working on a packaging helper tool in the Debian-Java team. I'm looking to reuse some modules from dh-make-perl. It's possible to depend on the dh-make-perl package. But it might encourage more adoption by other teams if the perl independent logic would be separated in a library of its own. Currently I'm aware of the following packaging helpers: jh_makepkg, maven-debian-helper, dh-make, dh-make-perl, dh-make-php, dh-make-drupal, gem2deb, python-stdeb, haskell-devscripts, dh-lua Depending on what you're looking for, you may also be interested in libconfig- model-dpkg-perl. (used by 'cme check dpkg'). You will get a dpkg lib which is independant of perl. This lib can read, check, modify and write most files in debian/ . You could use this in a program that would: - parse info from java stuff - adapt it and load it in libconfig-model-dpkg-perl lib. Then checking the info and writing package files would be handled libconfig- model-dpkg-perl. Hope this helps -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705068: Please provide dh-make library for non-perl packaging helpers
Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro writes: Hi, I'm working on a packaging helper tool in the Debian-Java team. I'm looking to reuse some modules from dh-make-perl. It's possible to depend on the dh-make-perl package. But it might encourage more adoption by other teams if the perl independent logic would be separated in a library of its own. Hi Thomas; I'm not sure what precisely you're proposing (I'm also not one of the team members working on dh-make-perl, so don't get too excited ;) ). Are you suggesting splitting dh-make-perl into two packages? It seems like one of them would be just a script, and a bit silly. Or is your request more about documenting and/or fixing library interfaces? d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#705068: Please provide dh-make library for non-perl packaging helpers
Package: dh-make-perl Version: 0.76-1 Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I'm working on a packaging helper tool in the Debian-Java team. I'm looking to reuse some modules from dh-make-perl. It's possible to depend on the dh-make-perl package. But it might encourage more adoption by other teams if the perl independent logic would be separated in a library of its own. Currently I'm aware of the following packaging helpers: jh_makepkg, maven-debian-helper, dh-make, dh-make-perl, dh-make-php, dh-make-drupal, gem2deb, python-stdeb, haskell-devscripts, dh-lua Regards, Thomas Koch -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRZElZAAoJEAf8SJEEK6Za+F8P/iccfcpgCuO8TtNBLvuKAFpZ 2vIKNNE0dPeJLMp9j9jF+8x4n97jvk9hP/fwbdfI0Jj5qSTDzOCawOKchGCUBG0k lCZvkXVsDa/e/xYz3gPfBCSQ3op2wokWTuhjxtBrFG9U6DV/FMaSaiF7j3y15LMT nbu2OFQs8RP0Su50Rqj6cqcTJMb0aT5bXyDN1xciJk4yaYAp6ViVN5F5pEJSXCjN E3siKcgmCDJphlA61J+YjjlEazwtLiDQQpBrmorgpKSFy2zKBD4TgOKwmaV+G5l5 JXrR57HsNnTyvzgewc0uuTcCJdZvlUcTyLUM1UtDXvVZuKvqN6GTPS9j63SkiTgP nvwAa0JwvJDR5ctzIuRS0qF/plF4Eg5Cc88HuAdIBId5Q27tcurLSQ6PakGfsLvA GXcucEsr60HzGGeaJeZuSmKkv51FtmMbewj+eKQlLI1F48yj4b1MUaZ8vNuS8zB7 qhOo36CUCx8l60mPH9a91bdmvPpWt+67lRmQOxzeMZzRblDjtz1A1DJ+L3+vlmHv ku+tt5nIRYAqrdkMS9ItGX7TbMrYPBEk9SJBNR8VrV12cyy72xv4WvYgakpFF/8k pgL3RbX6j48Lq6D2Fo4q0UdjxCF3pxzTY2ThIjyA+ucaSv3M3a87Ds7t5oaUnh+s o66aXroJmSuRNg9xDLIo =bou6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
