Re: [Denemo-devel] Ubuntu PPA & Debian Packaging

[Till Hartmann]

On 01.06.2010 23:51, Josue Abarca wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 04:30:43PM +0200, Till Hartmann wrote:
>> On 01.06.2010 12:45, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> ...
>>>>
>>>> I actually already sent libsmf to launchpad which built it for me
>>>> (libsmf is already available via my ppa [at
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~tillux/+archive/t-audio]). However, denemo makes
>>>> some problems; the funny part is: building denemo *locally* on my
>>>> machine did succeed, after I had removed the "autopoint" (debian
>>>> specific?)
>>>
>>> for the moment, yes, I guess
>>>
>>>> dependency from the control file, the launchpad build will
>>>> fail with though. See
>>>> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49465059/buildlog_ubuntu-lucid-i386.denemo_0.8.16-3_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
>>>> for the complete buildlog.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How about just adding "cvs" to build-depends?
>>>
>>> In general: the best and easiest (in my experience) system to locally
>>> check missing dependencies (by building a package like it gets built in
>>> repositories) is cowbuilder:
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/cowbuilder
>>>
>>> Pietro
>>>
> ...
>> Thanks again, I think I was too tired yesterday to see that.
>> So, there's a probably working (has not been tested yet) version of
>> denemo available for download at
>> https://launchpad.net/~tillux/+archive/t-audio .
>> I still have got some question, though:
>> - Is libsmf only a build-time-dependency?
> 
> No, check the .deb, for runtime:
> Depends: ... libsmf0 (>= 1.3) ...
> 
>> - Even though cowbuilder is in the ubuntu repos, cowbuilder --create
>> will fail, because there is no package "autopoint" in the ubuntu
>> repositories (the program itself might be available in another package,
>> though).
> 
> Yes, that is the idea of cowbuilder (or pbuilder), locally check missing
> dependencies.
> 
> (autopoint in ubuntu, is part of gettext, see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gettext/+bug/247916).
> 
>> - Could somebody please test the build?
>> - What makes more sense: create a different ppa for a git version (e.g.
>> "denemo-nightlies" or provide a package "denemo-git"?
> 
> Maybe a package denemo-snaptshot.
> 
>>
>> Till
>>
> 

So, launchpad successfully built libsmf and denemo for me; the packages
are available for karmic, lucid and maverick.
Just a thought: Instead of / additional to shipping a soundfont
internally, "fluid-soundfont-gm" and/or "fluid-soundfont-gs" could be
added to the recommends.

Till