Hi, On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:01:11AM +0000, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > >> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html > > > > Yes, I read it once. It is very detailed, which is good, but it means that > > it has > > many things I did not understand. I'll go over it again (and again...) > > The Debian wiki is good for looking up things you don't understand > related to Debian packaging.
+1 (Please keep us informed if we should provide more links in the policy) > > I did not yet ask for an account. First I wanted to get things working at > > home. > > Well, you don't have to upload your source package to the Debian Med git > until you've got it working for the first version but you should sign up > for an account at least: > > https://alioth.debian.org/account/register.php +1 > > I have some questions. I only have Wheezy installed. I am able to compile > > and > > run the git version of SleepyHead on Wheezy. However, SleepyHead depends > > on two libraries that are not in Wheezy but are in Jessy: libquazip and > > libqextserialport. The SleepyHead repository contains a copy of these > > libraries. > > > > Is Wheezy enough to work on packaging SleepyHead? Or do I need to > > setup a Jessy or Sid? > > > > I do my development work on Jessie. My understanding is that you can use > cowbuilder to build for Jessie while working on Wheezy, but I haven't > figured this out yet (Andreas builds my packages for upload as I am also > quite new). Yes, you can create a cowbuilder chroot on any Debian release (and I think also on Ubuntu systems - even if I never tried this and you might face pitfalls I can not help you out there). > When you put your packages into Debian, they will be entered > into Sid, then progress to Jessie. They will not enter Wheezy. +1 Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
