Hello all, in recent discussions on the GNUstep mailing lists there was an agreement that packaging for Debian/Ubuntu is important. So far so good :-)
Action following words I tried to upload recent sources to my Ubuntu PPA (https://launchpad.net/~mah-jump-ing/+archive/ppa). Even after several days of reading tutorials, instructions and other stuff there's still no success. Instead, my head is spinning. Could never imagine packaging is such a complex enterprise. Accordingly I think it's a good point in time to do a step back and ask for outlines of the broader picture. What I want to achieve is: 1) Reducing the number of patches coming with the packaging to zero. If something doesn't align, upstream should be fixed instead. 2) Provide a one-stop script to GNUstep developers which allows them to update Debian packages after a release. Something like ./package-release.sh 3) Provide automated weekly package updates in this PPA. Similar to weekly tarball snapshots, just as a package. While 1) should be pretty simple - apply the patches to the original repo, 2) and 3) are something I can't get an idea of on how this should work. Let's take gnustep-make as an example. Original sources are here: http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/trunk http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep/tools/make/trunk/ There's already an older packaging repo: git://git.debian.org/pkg-gnustep/gnustep-make.git http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-gnustep/gnustep-make.git This older thing provides three packages: gnustep-common, gnustep-make and gnustep-make-doc. Copying the debian/ directory from there to current sources looks like a step forward, still no chance to actually upload these sources. I receive all sorts of errors, from "Can't build, because sources have changed" to "control doesn't match" to "no key whatever" to "no previous package" (there is no such thing as a "previous package") ... What would be a good outline to get these weekly updates? Which strategy? Is it even wanted to maintain packaging in the upstream repo? Thanks for your help, Markus -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter http://www.reprap-diy.com/ http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
