2011/9/21 Praveen A <prav...@gmail.com>: > We are planning to keep a Debian Packaging session at VIT this Sunday (25th > September) 11:00 am onwards.
A long overdue update, I thought some of the participants will send an update :( Saket, Adwait, Kumar and Amit if you are reading this, I still hope to see your blogs :) > 1. We have to use new and easy gem2deb tool to package ruby gems which > are packaged using old cdbs tool. > 2. We have to add a few lines to debian/control to mention we are > renaming the package to fit new policy. > 3. Make sure all tests run properly - which can be quite exciting if > you are lucky! > > It just takes only one command to make a deb from a gem file, but real > fun starts after that! > > There is a nice graph which shows current status of the transition > http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/wheezy/ we have to move about > 484 packages before wheezy release. > > We will use http://piratepad.net/tu0H1eU2vH to coordinate. Since 4 out of 7 people turned up were newbies, we did not start ruby transitions. We discussed basics of public key cryptography, key signing parties, web of trust and how debian uses gpg keys. I had a very interesting discussion with the 4 newbies and we discussed how software installation works in various operating systems, dependencies, repositories/android market, contents inside a deb file, steps of a deb package installation, unix file system hierarchy etc. We decided to continue it online and we have planned our next session this Saturday (1st October) 8 pm at #debian-in-mentors on oftc. So if you missed last session, you can join in. As always we care about newbies and we will have separate sessions for them. Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List