On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 10:29 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > On 6/2/2013 3:05 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > It's done entirely by Walter on his own systems, and I suspect that the deb > > and rpm files are created from the zip file (though I'm not sure if he > > creates > > those or someone else does). We need to change it so that the process for > > generating them is automated and does not rely on Walter. Work is being done > > in that area, but it does not appear to be a priority for Walter. > > Creating deps and rpms is done from the zip file, and the scripts are here: > > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/installer > > I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but those scripts are not a mystery > and anyone can produce pull requests to add to them or fix them.
As I noted earlier, the deb creation scripts in that repository are just fundamentally the wrong way of creating debs. Also as noted earlier I can't do anything about this till August. The result will not be a pull request on the script in the repository, but a new Git repository specifically designed to use the Debian standard deb creation toolchain and a request to delete the script mentioned above from the whole release toolset. Sorry guv but you have to use the right tool for the job, and deb creation should use the deb creation tools. The start point has to be a tarball of the source. If this is not part of the distribution release then we need to agree an officially acceptable process for creating a release source tarball. Thanks. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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