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

[Pietro Battiston]

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.

Pietro