Re: Ubuntu 11.10 packages from svn

[Philippe Roussel]

Le 14/03/2012 20:23, Ivan Vučica a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 19:19, Philippe Roussel<p.o.roussel@free.fr>  wrote:
>
> > Well, I'm far from a packaging expert but I think it's considered bad form
> > to include a debian folder in the sources. Some of the files on this folder
> > as to be changed for each distribution, for each modifications etc.
> >
> > But I could be wrong so let's ask Yavor Doganov who first packaged
> > SimpleAgenda for Debian.
> >
> > What could possibly be done is repository of .deb diffs of GNUstep
> > applications and libraries ? Not sure it would be really useful as we can
> > find those diffs on debian.org.
>
>
> Both ways are described in Debian documentation, but the "no-debian-folder"
> is encouraged.

Note to self : check the documentation before replying :o)
Thanks for the info.

> When I target Debian, I personally prefer adding a debian/ folder (or a way
> to replicate it), because I want to be able to produce an official package
> easily, and I want my users to be able to pull a revision from VCS at
> random, and produce a package from it.

For one particular package yes but I don't think this is manageable 
here. It would mean adding debian/ folders in gnustep svn, gap cvs, 
textedit git etc.

> If someone's up for it, it may be a good idea to make an official build
> ruleset (even if stored separately), as well as make it possible to use
> GNUmakefiles for generating the debian/ folder for libraries and apps.

If I manage to build usable packages and people start using them, I will 
try to automate the process, cleanup the debian parts, add some scripts 
and put that somewhere on the net.

Philippe