On 31.03.2011 17:06, ext Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho wrote:
We decided do a very simple binary debian packages to avoid
complications with debian control and rules files. Then only the
basics deps are necessary to install, you can install it in any debian
like distro with qt 4.7.
OK. But this is very relevant information and could/should be added to
the wiki.
I have thought of create a PPA for the package before, but like I told
these are very basic packages without all dependencies. To implement a
PPA we need improve (complicate) the packaging process, and make
specif package for each distro, witch is already done by the package
managers who has a lot of work to do in every release cycle.
If you have a directory full of deb files, you can very easily (most
likely one line in your updating scripts) create an apt repo e.g. with
debarchiver. You don't need to create a PPA for that.
Another point is, with this raw packages, we can avoid people to do
wrongs updates, only who really know what are doing will use our
package. The main point of this is because we can't ensure if the
package are 100% working, the build system is automatic then some
problems can happen and then make the package invalid.
In my opinion the best way is keep the things manually to avoid
automatic mistakes ;).
But not providing the repos will just make things more difficult for
those who would benefit of following the bleeding edge with minor harm
to regular users. After all, Debian and Ubuntu provide unstable
repositories as well, without any harm to the user. If you're interested
in adding PySide repositories to your computer, you're a developer
anyway, and can be assumed to understand the difference between nightly
releases and stable ones.
Cheers,
ma.
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