Re: Best Linux distro for GNUstep?

[Martin Dietze]

On Sat, March 26, 2011, Philippe Roussel wrote:

> So the main task for producing those packages would be to create a .deb
> description for each one, right ? Debian and Ubuntu already did that (or
> maybe only Debian did, I don't know), we should be able to use that,
> right ?

Ideally the debianisation code should be moved into the source
revision control of the software whenever possible, not only for
the GS libs but also for applications based on GS. If those
packages are still maintained from my experience developers will
not object getting that 'debian/' directory from somewhere and
keeping it in the source tree, probably accepting some patches
every now and then. We've been using this approach quite
successfully with Carlos Mafra and his git repo for WindowMaker
(from which I auto-build new .deb packages whenever there are
new revisions in the git).

Ideally again this approach would have the debianisation
from the sources leading the way for distro maintainers. 

Cheers,

M'bert

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