Dan Roberts wrote: > I've been wanting to package Code::Blocks in time for fiesty, I'm > currently talking to the devs about this. As it turns out their SVN > repository actually houses more stable code than their last stable > release (there's been a substantial rewrite). However, regardless of > any of that, their source tree contains information needed to create > binary packages for several package managers, including deb and rpm. So > my question is, for the *.orig.tgz should i remove these files? > > Additionally, their source tree contains 4 or 5 very distinct pieces of > functionality, including a SDK, am I "allowed" to chop it up to form a > codeblocks package and a codeblocks-dev and whatever else I see fit? Or > should i create multiple packages from the original source tree? > > Thanks, > -Dan > In the short term I would say yes. In the long term I would ask them to remove the package manager directories from their 'make dist' target.
I would also say yes to chopping it into several packages (at least binary packages). Of course, I'm the group moron. :) Thanks, Barry deFreese (aka bddebian) -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
