On Mon, Mar 10, 2008, Rusty Lynch wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:27 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > (Please tell me if you prefer the response to the mailing-list alone.)
^^^ ? > > Argh, didn't think of that; right, uupdate doesn't work with native > > packages; fortunately we're not going to have native packages much > > longer. Another good reason to avoid them. ;) > Not much longer as in hardy time frame, or post hardy? As in next time we update them we should fix that. This should be doable for hardy. > BTW, could explain what 'native package' means? I see the term being > tossed around the debian documentation, but I must have missed the > actual definition. Native packages are ones which are native to the distribution, that is software which is inherently specific to the distribution. For example the ubuntu-keyring is inherently native to Ubuntu. Most packages should be native these days where everybody forks each other though. In Debian, we have many native packages such as devscripts where the upstream is Debian; but it's not always correct to consider these native. Take pbuilder, it's not Debian specific, it applies equally to Ubuntu. pbuilder could do proper releases ona public website and then be packaged in Debian separately. Technically, native is also when you push each upload as a full tarball; non-native are a tarball + a diff and you reupload only the diff unless when preparing new upstream releases. > So... do we need to convert all the moblin packages to non-native or > <insert list of steps to go from new tarball release to happiness in the > ppa> Yes, I definitely think we do; it maps pretty well to the fact that there are two development/maintenance modes/places/sources: the upstream source code (the tarball) and the packaging (the diff / the debian/). To convert them to non-native is a job of: - copying the debian/ over - locating what changes we did outside of the debian/ and convert them to patches stored below debian/patches (and perhaps include some rules to apply the patches!); I gave hints on how to do this in my previous mail -- Loïc Minier -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
