Hello Jeremy, I already try to do so.
I'm writing a shell script to automate the build process as far as possible. And I'm documenting it literally. I do it in German and it is prepared for translation. Source: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/dpb Book: https://people.debian.org/~mechtilde/Dokumentation Cooperation is welcome. Regards Mechtilde Am 18.04.21 um 01:45 schrieb nerdymutualist: > Hello Debian developers and maintainers, > > When I started to venture into building my own .deb packages, I discovered > that the process is (at least in my opinion) relatively complex and arduous, > and a variety of tools, sometimes overlapping, exist to facilitate the > process. On the other hand, Solus (another distribution with which I have > been involved in terms of packaging) has a highly streamlined packaging > process where most steps are automated and the only input required is the URL > of the source tarball, the name of the package, and the steps to install the > program, and a tool called solbuild > (https://github.com/solus-project/solbuild) then uses OverlayFS to make a > container, download the tarball, run the installation steps, detect which > files were created by the installation script of the software, and then build > the package, all automatically without requiring any sort of manual > intervention. So I was thinking that perhaps this approach might be applied > to Debian to streamline the packaging process and make it easier for people > to contribute and maintain packages. Do you think this would be a good idea? > If so, I would love to work on it (I am familiar with Go, Rust and Python). > > Thank you, > Jeremy (jwinnie) > -- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Apache OpenOffice ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows und OS/2 ## Debian Developer ## PGP encryption welcome ## F0E3 7F3D C87A 4998 2899 39E7 F287 7BBA 141A AD7F
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