Le Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:34:45AM -0000, yigal.weinstein a écrit : > well thank you for my introduction by example to Debian/Ubuntu package > management. I am using 5.11 via checksintall - I know this is a far cry > from a more formal diff and patches etc. but for personal use it works > well.
Hi, now I understand why there were misunderstandings: in our discusison, we were not thinking about the same tools. Debian and Ubuntu generate their binary packages from source packages, whereas chechkinstall produces binary packages simply from upstream sources. As you said, checkinstall works for a personal usage, but more complex tools are needed at a distribution level. For instance, in order to ensure quality, there needs some tracability. With checkinstall, one loses this, but by using a source package which one updates at each upstream release, one can have things such as the following changelog: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/m/maxima/maxima_5.10.0-6ubuntu1/changelog There many other reasons for which a package made with checkinstall can not be accepted in a distribution. However, there are many other ways to help, and some of them do not require a deep knowledge of packaging. If you want to contribute to Ubuntu, a good entry point is the ubuntu-science mailing list (through which read your bug report). If they do not give you enough work there, you can also try the debian-science mailing list ;) http://lists.tauware.de/listinfo/ubuntu-science http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- Why not use 5.11 https://launchpad.net/bugs/92715 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
