Hiya! Sorry, I have had no time to write the stuff we were discussing a few weeks back. I do think it is probably a better thing to do than to rewrite all the other packages....
Julian On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:58:11PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > I've been looking at how I can start building emdebian packages - > starting with libglib2.0-0 - and as part of this, I've been taking a > look at Stag. > > 1. The Stag addons in Emdebian SVN are quite a bit behind current > Debian unstable: Stag is based on: > > debhelper 4.2.11 > dpkg 1.10.22 > > Debian unstable, as of November 2006, has: > > debhelper 5.0.42 > dpkg 1.13.24 > > 2. The Stag scripts use the emdebian/ directory ($DEBIAN_DIR) method. > > So I've done a few comparisons to see where the land lies with > reference to the composite method proposed on the Wiki. > > If I've read the emdebian stag-addons SVN code correctly, removing the > need for $DEBIAN_DIR and emdebian/* has removed the need to modify the > bulk of the debhelper scripts modified in Stag. There are no changes in > the customised Perl library: EmDebian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib beyond > handling $DEBIAN_DIR so the original Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib library > can be used. This removes a burden from us because we don't need to > keep a patched version updated. > > Also, I've looked at each of the individual scripts in > emdebian/stag-addons/trunk/debhelper in SVN and compared with the > originals in the same folder. > > Of 46 scripts, only FIVE have modifications that go beyond handling > $DEBIAN_DIR or the use of EmDebian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib. > > These five scripts are modified only to the point of being emptied of > content and made into placeholders. i.e. simply *not running* these > scripts is directly equivalent to the Stag debhelper config as it is > outlined in emdebian SVN. > > The five scripts are: > > dh_installdocs > dh_installexamples > dh_installinfo > dh_installman > dh_installmanpages > > I'd welcome any comments on this review from those with more experience > of Stag, but it does look like a simple tweak of debian/rules that > specifically comments out / removes these five scripts with a simple > regular expression will be sufficient to simulate a Stag build. CDBS > packages can be handled simply by substituting a cdbs ruleset that > avoids running these scripts. Naturally, em_make would be able to do > this for us so that emdebianising a Debian package achieves three tasks: > > 1. Create an emdebian version string and a suitable entry in > debian/changelog > 2. Create the locale packages and entries in debian/control > 3. Comment out/remove these five scripts from debian/rules or add the > masking CDBS ruleset. > > Hopefully, this will dramatically reduce the size of the emdebian.diff > patches to be held in SVN and the number of packages that will need any > patches stored in SVN in the first place. > > I'll be looking at the dpkg code next, looking at what code may need to > be implemented in emdebian scripts to handle differences between Debian > and Stag. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
