Re: Becoming a package maintainer and best practices for porting RPMs from Fedora

2020-06-10 Thread Qianqian Fang
On 6/8/20 5:44 PM, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: Either including or not including the upstream files is allowed, but including them is usually preferred, unless they are very large. thank you so much Rebecca. very helpful. will start working on the packaging files, and send my packaging-related

Re: Becoming a package maintainer and best practices for porting RPMs from Fedora

2020-06-08 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 08/06/2020 21:04, Qianqian Fang wrote: from browsing some of the existing repos, it appears that the package repo contains all upstream source files (with the addition of the debian/ folder), which is different from Fedora (upstream source package is separate from the .spec and patch*

Re: Becoming a package maintainer and best practices for porting RPMs from Fedora

2020-06-08 Thread Qianqian Fang
On 6/8/20 3:00 PM, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: This is a library, so the binary package names should probably be libzmat0/libzmat-dev/octave-zmat.  I have not checked the rest of the package. It's generally recommended, and in some teams required, that packaging repositories be hosted on

Re: Becoming a package maintainer and best practices for porting RPMs from Fedora

2020-06-08 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
On 08/06/2020 18:35, Qianqian Fang wrote: I picked one of my projects (https://github.com/fangq/zmat) to get started, currently, I managed to create all basic packaging files (3 subpackages, zmat/zmat-dev/octave-zmat) https://github.com/fangq/debpkg/tree/zmat This is a library, so the

Re: Becoming a package maintainer and best practices for porting RPMs from Fedora

2020-06-08 Thread Qianqian Fang
On 6/5/20 3:44 AM, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: Not that I'm aware of.  (The package 'alien' can install RPM binary packages on Debian, but does not convert source packages.) any best practices guide for creating a package? any links/steps on how to become a maintainer would be fantastic. Any

Re: Becoming a package maintainer and best practices for porting RPMs from Fedora

2020-06-05 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
Thank you for offering to contribute. Qianqian Fang wrote: 1. is there an established procedure to convert an official Fedora RPM to a deb package? Not that I'm aware of. (The package 'alien' can install RPM binary packages on Debian, but does not convert source packages.) any best

Becoming a package maintainer and best practices for porting RPMs from Fedora

2020-06-04 Thread Qianqian Fang
Dear Debianers, I have been maintaining a number of packages created by my lab for Fedora (as part of NeuroFedora) - most of these tools are for optical/neuro imaging, modeling and data processing. I would like to contribute these packages to Debian and want to get some pointers where to