On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:04:52PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:20:53PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz
dpkg-buildpackage
I think one valid point the OP makes which each of these suggestions — in
isolation — seem to miss, is
On 25/04/13 19:18, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Gentoo:
- vim foo-1.ebuild; ebuild foo-1.ebuild manifest; emerge foo
- That may look like oversimplification, but the contents of
foo-1.ebuild really are very simple.
By that rationale, building a Debian package simply
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:20:53PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz
dpkg-buildpackage
I think one valid point the OP makes which each of these suggestions — in
isolation — seem to miss, is there are *too many ways to do it*. The
suggestions you (and others)
From: Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org
I'm definitely sure that a bug report is not the way to achieve
anything here.
Okay, continuing this on-list instead of in the bug report. Everyone,
please keep me on the CC list, I missed half of these replies.
As Wouter mentioned, coming up to $DISTRO
On 26-04-13 21:43, Ben Longbons wrote:
From: Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org
I'm definitely sure that a bug report is not the way to achieve
anything here.
Okay, continuing this on-list instead of in the bug report. Everyone,
please keep me on the CC list, I missed half of these replies.
CALP == Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com writes:
CALP This can be even more simple:
CALP dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz
CALP dpkg-buildpackage
And where does one find dh_make?
Searching on goog suggests it would be part of debhelper. But it isn't:
:; dpkg -L debhelper|grep dh_make
On 27/04/13 01:46, James Cloos wrote:
CALP == Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com writes:
CALP This can be even more simple:
CALP dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz
CALP dpkg-buildpackage
And where does one find dh_make?
Searching on goog suggests it would be part of debhelper. But
[James Cloos]
And where does one find dh_make?
Searching on goog suggests it would be part of debhelper. But it isn't:
Someone suggested 'apt-file', but in this case the simpler thing is:
apt-cache search dh_make
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Package: general
Severity: wishlist
Introduction:
This is my attempt at explaining exactly what frustrations prevent me from
doing anything with Debian packages, and how another distro (Gentoo) does
it better. The fact that Gentoo is a source-based distro is irrelevant.
I hope you will
Hi Ben,
On 25-04-13 18:22, Ben Longbons wrote:
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
[...long introduction snipped]
How Simple Tasks are approached:
quick:
Debian:
- checkinstall is buggy, quirky, and has no upgrade path.
- I still haven't figured out how to do this easily.
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes:
...
Put otherwise, going to one distribution and saying you guys are doing
it all wrong, look at how $OTHER distribution is doing it, you should do
it their way!!1! isn't very convincing.
It's particularly unconvincing if one has witnessed the Gentoo
+++ Ben Longbons [2013-04-25 09:22 -0700]:
Package: general
Severity: wishlist
Introduction:
This is my attempt at explaining exactly what frustrations prevent me from
doing anything with Debian packages, and how another distro (Gentoo) does
it better. The fact that Gentoo is a
* Ben Longbons brlongb...@gmail.com [130425 18:27]:
The problems with the way Debian does it are:
- debian/ is a subdirectory of the extracted source tree.
Why do you think that is a problem?
- Because of the above, debian/rules tries to know about backwards steps.
What are backwards
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