Jana Pirat dijo [Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 09:36:38PM +0200]: > > Of course I can, but for the introduction to be successful we need to > > know the target audience. > > yes of course > > > > IMO, the best, would be that the audience had read (even quicly) the > > developer reference and debian policy documents (quite boring, but > > essentials) and has an existing package to fix or a software to package. > > And that people with more experience help them. > > it's very ambitious. > it would be not anymore workshop for beginners, just for advanced > beginners ;) > (...) > i have exactly this in mind. i personaly don't know what is control file > and so on. so i need very basics information. > it will be my very first time i here about packaging.
Hi Jana and others, I have to agree with Enrico's comments... When I got interested in packaging for Debian, it took me several months to actually *do* it because ther is too much to learn. It is not hard to learn the basics for doing a package *wrongly*, and you should avoid that. I have seen several .deb packages (I actually use one in a production server) that are actually a steaming pile of shit, often built by upstreams not in Debian that want just to facilitate installing... but just break horribly any Debian-system expectations. Still, if Gegerly is so eager about his approach, he might actually lead you to get enough knowledge to package gcc. It's an interesting goal! And Gegerly is a very well-known and respected developer, that managed to even package and mantain tamagotchis in Debian. I think he even got a tamagotchi to campaign for DPL many years ago! FWIW I'd gladly sit in the audience and hijack parts of the talk/commentary. It is a very valuable skill exchange, specially if we want to make more local people work in Debian. Which is one of Debconf's goals. Greetings, _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
