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

[Josue Abarca]

Argh, I was responding to the wrong address, forwarding.

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 06:07:47PM +0200, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 31/05/2010 alle 17.44 +0200, Till Hartmann ha scritto:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm currently planning to create a PPA for recent Ubuntu versions
> > (karmic and lucid, that is) (for those who do not know what a PPA is:
> > Personal Package Archive, where launchpad users can upload source
> > packages and let Canonical's servers build the packages for you. These
> > PPA can be added as a software repository to the apt sources).
> > To prevent redundant work and learn more about debian packaging, I would
> > like to know who is the deb maintainer for denemo (I've seen mails on
> > the list some time ago, but the denemo version packaged is already quite
> > old, especially as denemo's development process keeps getting faster)
> > and if you could help me a little bit.
> > 
> 
> - formally, there is no debian maintainer - the last packages were
> uploaded as "quality assurance" uploads, which is what happens with
> orphaned packages
> 
> - more pragmatically, I'm the one behind those last uploads
> 
> - even more pragmatically, Josue Abarca is the one who already packaged
> the last denemo version and is currently trying to get it into Debian,
> and also to become its (official) maintainer.
> 
> 
> I guess he's the right person to answer more in depth to your questions,
> but since I did use several times some PPAs, I just add that the
> following:
> 
> git clone git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/denemo.git
> git-buildpackage -S -sa
> 
> should produce something almost ready for a PPA, though you will
> probably want to add a changelog entry in order to target the right
> Ubuntu release (and obviously give a clean "git-buildpackage" to verify
> it builds fine).
> 
> 
> One more step would be to patch the default settings in order to use
> pulseaudio (present by default in Ubuntu but not in Debian).
> 
> The Right Thing (TM) may then be, if that's fine for Josue, that you
> register on Alioth and create a separate branch for (the few,
> presumably) Ubuntu-specific patches.

Yes, this would be great.

> 
> Pietro

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