Le vendredi 16 avril 2010 à 19:16 +0200, Stevan Bajić a écrit : [...] > Have you seen my Gentoo Ebuild for DSPAM? Would the Debian package be > in the same area? I mean function wise. The install part from the > Gentoo Ebuild is not that hard.
I do not know anything about Gentoo Ebuild system, but I think all packaging systems have more or less the same features. However, the biggest difference between Gentoo and Debian is that the Debian user will have to use the binary packages built with the configuration options you have chosen (or re-build the package obviously, which is not so common for "standard" Debian users). > But then the configuration wizard is what makes installing DSPAM on > Gentoo a no brainer. Would the Debian package require something like > that as well? Does the Debian packing system offers such options to > add an configuration part for DSPAM inside the package? Well, Debian specific configuration is provided by various patches (if you have a look at the Debian source package, they are under debian/patches). You also have the possibility to use other means to let the user choose some of the runtime options, but the current DSPAM packages do not need them (only a default file allowing some options to be passed to the daemon etc.). The main point is that the Debian Policy[0] requires various things, which allow the packages in Debian to have a consistent level of quality (well, everyting is relative, and this is not meant to lower other distributions' requirements - I must say I do not know them). The most difficult part about Debian packaging is not really "technical" (everything is quite well documented, and after some time, it seems really logical), I think it is the "political" part which often makes things hard for new packagers (it makes me think I still need to re-write the debian/copyright file ;) Cheers, Julien [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspam-devel mailing list Dspam-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-devel
