2009/8/23 Martin Dietze <[email protected]> > On Sun, August 23, 2009, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > Paul Harris wrote: > > > I'm happy that there has been progress, but can I request that you make > > > your repo easy to build debian-packages from? > > > I have a bug I'd like to > > > test if it still exists, but I don't want to 'make install' because > > > there is usually no 'make uninstall' ... a debian/rules folder would > fix > > > all that. > > > > Can you send me a patch to do that? > > > > However, I usually don't install my test versions. This is what I do. > > I think I could help here. I could think of setting up someting > which automatically creates debian packages from the current > code (stable and testing WM branches if we decide to stick to > this naming) and makes the results available so that people can > simply apt-get them. First thing we should do is add John's > debianisation code to the repo if it is not yet in there. I > could then setup a cron job which automatically pulls from your > repo and then does the builds. I cannot promise to look after > build problems every day, but the result should still be much > better than nothing. >
I actually only really wanted the debian/ folder so that I could apt-build the packages myself, and then dpkg install them. I can git pull for the latests updates and then rebuild+reinstall easily enough... theres not a lot of thrash anyway. I think it would be a good idea to have a 3rd party wmaker debian repo, to allow people like myself to be guinea pigs for the latest (or latest-stable) git version of wmaker. More testing = better quality, and right now only Carlos is testing his git version. We can look at merging into Mercurial and debian-proper later on.
