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

[Till Hartmann]

On 01.06.2010 12:45, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 01/06/2010 alle 00.14 +0200, Till Hartmann ha scritto:
>> On 31.05.2010 18:07, 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.
>>>
>>> Pietro
>>>
>>>
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>> Thanks for both your answers.
>>
>> 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
> 
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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?
- 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).
- 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"?

Till