Re: [Tuxnes-devel] Debian packaging

[keegan <ic...@su...>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:25:30AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> -On [20020218 02:00], keegan (ic...@su...) wrote:
> >I have made Debian packages for TuxNES 0.75, and would like to publish
> >them as part of the distribution.  My packages are available now at
> >http://rune.thebasement.org/~ice/debian/ - if anyone here runs Debian
> >and would like to test them, or let me know that someone else has
> >already done this, please do.  And keep up the great work!  TuxNES is by
> >far the most complete/accurate Linux NES emulator I have found.
> 
> Well,
> 
> is there any way we can make the packaging easier?

Thanks very much for the offer, but it is pretty much complete.  It's
passing all of the build environment tests I can find, and no bugs have
been reported yet.

> I notice some projects have a debian directory.  Would adding something like
> this to the CVS tree help?

There has been some significant discussion on this topic on the Debian
lists, and the general concensus is that this complicates releases more
than it helps them, due to the various idiosyncracies of packaging.

> [Note: I am not a Linux user since years and wouldn't know much of the
> specifics package builders need nowadays.]

That's okay.  I really appreciate your offer for help.  With nice, clean
upstream source releases (like yours :), my job is really quite
straightforward.  Keep up the good work.

I am planning on making a small package status webpage tonight, but
unfortunately my web server (with the packages) is down at the
moment.

Thanks again,
  Keegan