On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 09:06:54AM +0200, Matteo Vescovi wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all! > > Frank Lichtenheld (djpig) has orphaned the gtkpod package since he's not > going to use it anymore, as you can read from: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621910 > > Now, I'd like to help packaging it to our beloved Debian, but I need > some help. I've already read part of the New Maintainer Guide and > managing to read the Debian Policy Manual during this weekend; I've set > up a dedicated virtual machine (with LXC) based on Sid AMD64, installed > the build-essential and most of the packages suggested in the Guide. > Now, there are few options to build: which one should I choose? > pbuilder? I've never packaged something important, so I guess I should > understand a lot of things before trying to complete the process (at > this time, I've already tried and failed because of a strange dependency > of sqlite3). > > If anyone could give me some helpful hints, it would be really really > appreciated. > > Debian/rules! > > mfv
Hello, As a gtkpod user for a few years, I'm interested to help too. I can help you in this task if you wish. The New Maintainer guide is a nice start, be sure not to forget the developer's reference, which is also a nice read (the policy is more a standards document than a packaging how-to). The wiki has also very nice "tutorials". You can start by unpacking a source package as produced by "apt-get source". Try building it by hand (with debian/rules), with a helper (such as dpkg-buildpackage) and in a chroot (I prefer cowbuilder which is built on top of pbuilder). However, modern packaging involves version control systems. As you may have seen, gtkpod uses svn-buildpackage. Try to build the package from it, and maybe to commit a patch for a bug ? (hint : I've submitted a patch for #598778, I believe it's easy to fix :-) ). Cheers -- Etienne Millon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110415081727.ga2...@john.ssi.corp
