On Tue 16 Jun 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Kevin Squire wrote: > >> built the package for Debian-Alpha. I kind of wish there were, but then > >> that would imply that there was a separate maintainer for the Alpha port, > >> which doesn't seem to be the case.... Should there be? (Side question: > >> are there separate diffs for alpha package builds from the original > >> source?) > > Paul Slootman replied: > > If everything goes as it should, building the alpha version should be a > > simple question of taking the sources and running "dpkg-buildpackage -B". > > Thanks for this hint ... I searched long and fruitlessly in the > documentation for that :( > > > This implies that there are _no_ separate diffs for alpha; that should > > be taken care of with #ifdefs. If patches _are_ needed to build a > > package for alpha, the procedure (as I see it) is to build the package > > with the necessary patches, upload the package as a non-maintainer > > upload i.e. with a .1 suffix to the version number, and submit the difss > > necessary to the bug tracking system. Usually the "official" maintainers > > are good with applying those patches to their official sources, so that > > a future version builds cleanly on alpha without any intervention necessary. > > I did this for Xemacs 20.4 but with the special xemacs-alpha patch (and a > bit of hacking). Could you point me to what I have to do to upload the > patched version? Should I try to generate the patch with #ifdefs (using > diff -Dalpha)? Should I just make the diffs? What if (as is the case) > only a subset of the packages can be made on alpha (since there is no -wnn > yet for alpha)? > > Gee, I have many questions. I suppose the real reason is that I would like > to be a debian developer (after 2.0)...could one of you mentor me, please? > Then I can get serious providing the tools I install regularly (mostly > related to TeX, functional languages, and symbolic computation) as Debian > packages...
I think the best place to ask about this stuff is on debian-mentors, a mailing list specially for prospective and beginning maintainers. I've cc'ed debian-mentors on this message. It sounds like it would be great for the Debian/Alpha effort to have you join us! Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
