Note that I patched gnustep-make many years ago to produce source packages which I experimentally uploaded to Canonical's PPA system and thus produced binary packages. I never claimed ~gnustep, though ;)
They likely don't confirm to many of the Debian standards, and I didn't use this in a long time, but I don't think anyone removed the targets from gnustep-make. This means for many of the projects you might be able to package them with minimal effort. The targets present should allow building binary packages too. I recall putting some of this on my own repo, but PPAs are more convenient for Ubuntu users. sent from phone On Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 17:11 Johannes Brakensiek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Gregory, > > On 29 Jul 2020, at 16:52, Gregory Casamento wrote: > > > One of the things we have struggled with in the past is the fact that > > the > > Debian packages are, necessarily, way behind. I would like to set up > > a > > repo that contains the needed packages (at first for deb, but then for > > rpm > > based repositories as well) for users to get their packages directly > > from > > us IF they choose to do so. I am in no way saying we should not > > create > > packages for Debian, but this would allow us to have more control and > > also > > would allow us to create packages that use clang instead of GCC for > > Linux. > > > > I am going to set this up on an AWS server. I will let you guys know > > about > > my progress. If anyone would like to help or has any advice, let me > > know. > > thank you for putting new efforts into this, I think this is a great > idea. ;) > > But I’d beg you to not start afresh again. The work of preparing the > source packages already has been done for the Nextspace project: > https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/tree/master/Packaging/Debian > > These are the GNUstep packages plus those needed for Nextspace and they > are all based on the Debian ones, just renamed. > > It would be of great use you could provide the binary packages for this. > I’d prefer them to not be hosted on AWS, but that’s a minor issue to > me. > > I also tried to set up a PPA for GNUstep > (https://launchpad.net/~gnustep), but I did not achieve much progress > regarding CI/CD, because some of the automatic imports of GNUstep > repositories are failing due to a bug of LaunchPad itself. So I’d > rather prefer a CD approach based on the source packages mentioned > above, provided by a custom Debian repository. > > Thank you > Johannes > >
