Re: Debian Package Repository...

[Johannes Brakensiek]

Hey Gregory,

On 29 Jul 2020, at 16:52, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> One of the things we have struggled with in the past is the fact that 
> the
> Debian packages are, necessarily, way behind.   I would like to set up 
> a
> repo that contains the needed packages (at first for deb, but then for 
> rpm
> based repositories as well) for users to get their packages directly 
> from
> us IF they choose to do so.  I am in no way saying we should not 
> create
> packages for Debian, but this would allow us to have more control and 
> also
> would allow us to create packages that use clang instead of GCC for 
> Linux.
>
> I am going to set this up on an AWS server.  I will let you guys know 
> about
> my progress.  If anyone would like to help or has any advice, let me 
> know.

thank you for putting new efforts into this, I think this is a great 
idea. ;)

But I’d beg you to not start afresh again. The work of preparing the 
source packages already has been done for the Nextspace project: 
https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace/tree/master/Packaging/Debian

These are the GNUstep packages plus those needed for Nextspace and they 
are all based on the Debian ones, just renamed.

It would be of great use you could provide the binary packages for this. 
I’d prefer them to not be hosted on AWS, but that’s a minor issue to 
me.

I also tried to set up a PPA for GNUstep 
(https://launchpad.net/~gnustep), but I did not achieve much progress 
regarding CI/CD, because some of the automatic imports of GNUstep 
repositories are failing due to a bug of LaunchPad itself. So I’d 
rather prefer a CD approach based on the source packages mentioned 
above, provided by a custom Debian repository.

Thank you
Johannes