Re: [Openmortal-discuss] Openmortal and Debian.

[Bartosz F. a. f. <fe...@o2...>]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:01:16PM +0200, UPi wrote:
> >Sure I would like to join efforts. I just wonder why he didn't filled an
> >"Intend To Package" bugreport in Debian's BTS.=20
> >That's the way how Debian tries to not duplicate efforts.
> >I filled such bugreport yesterday. http://bugs.debian.org/248751
> > =20
> Speaking of which, can you tell me about the process of creating an=20
> official debian package? Sounds interesting...

Well there are two situations. For Debian developers and for non-Debian
developers ;)

I suppose you're interested in the latter.

In fact making non-official packages doesn't differ from making official
ones... except that official ones are usually (does not mean always)
better maintained and prepared to build on several architectures.

First of all you should file bugreport as I mentioned before. This
should avoid duplicating efforts, cause everyone knows that someone is
preparing this package.

Then if you create good package... good at least in your opinion. It
should be at least linda&lintian (some checking scripts) clean, and it
should build fine with pbuilder (some chrooted environment which helps
check if you set good dependencies).

Then you have to find sponsor for this package. Sponsor is the person
who will take responsibility for your package... He has to be Debian=20
developer already, cause only them can upload packages to Debian's archives.

He usually finds some mistakes in package and has some suggestions about
it. After some correctness usually package is ready for upload.

When it is uploaded then autobuilders start building it on every
architecture. This usually leads to new problems, cause most programs
aren't tested on exotic architectures because of lack of these
architectures in programmers homes ;)

Anyway package appears in official Debian's archives so everyone (at Sid
ofcourse) can install it with `apt-get install openmortal`

After ten days (if there were no problems, bugreports, erorrs with other
architectures) package is moved to testing (Sarge) too.
So everyone using testing can also use `apt-get install openmortal`

I'm not sure if above is what you wanted to find out ;)

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> I hope this info is sufficient.

I hope that too... we will see when I start packaging ;)
Now I'm waiting for Viktor's answer.

regards
fEnIo

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