On 12/31/18 11:52 AM, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > Stephen, > > I could be mistaken, but doesn’t Launchpad have automated build facilities to > target different releases? That might ease providing packages for the LTS > versions and the current regular version even if you aren’t running them > yourself. That won’t help derivative distros but as people discover which one > works best, that info can be passed on for those users. > > Regards, > Adrien
If I am reading their documentation correctly, you can pick several environments to which they will build deb files. I believe these architectures were supported: X86, AMD64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el In addition, you could pick several release environments including: Ubuntu: Cosmic, Bionic, Xenial, Trusty Debian: Stretch, Jessie, Wheezy, SID It sounded like all that had to happen is to push a tarball up with the ./Debian folder already populated and their system would build to all those environments automatically. --Steve PS I'm not sure what arm64, armhf, and ppc64el would do for GnC! > >> On Dec 31, 2018, at 11:55 AM, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: >> >> On 12/31/18 9:47 AM, Colin Law wrote: >>> I don't think the guys/gals that maintain the official Debian and >>> Ubuntu packages are on this list, though I may be wrong. >>> >>> Colin >> >> >> Perhaps the question then becomes: Is the team willing to support an >> unofficial PPA for the latest version of GnC? >> >> If so, I'll do more research. If not, I'll stop. >> >>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 17:44, Stephen M. Butler <kg...@arrl.net> wrote: >>>> Dev Team, >>>> >>>> So far, three folks have either used or inquired about using the debian >>>> package for 3.4. Marketing theory (no, I'm a software engineer by >>>> avocation) says that there are several more that would take advantage if >>>> it were more "supported". >>>> >>>> Here are my thoughts: >>>> >>>> 1. Both Ubuntu (Launchpad) and Debian request certain files in a >>>> ~/debian folder. Most of these appear to be copies of files the >>>> application already has. Perhaps a softlink could be put in the >>>> debian folder that points to the original so that changes in the >>>> original automatically show up in the folder. Does this work via git? >>>> 2. I'm willing to coordinate the effort to build that folder (I presume >>>> on the Master branch) but will need volunteers from more technical >>>> folks from time-to-time to handle some of the techy stuff. I know >>>> the devs are busy squashing bugs so this would have to take a back >>>> seat to that. >>>> 3. Building this folder might even be beneficial to the official >>>> packagers for the various distros. >>>> 4. One team for whom I did light testing, published a daily build (no >>>> longer daily as the software matured) for the adventurous. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://launchpad.net/~subsurface/+archive/ubuntu/subsurface-daily >>>> >>>> I would be willing to push the files up to Launchpad if the team sees >>>> value in perusing this. However, I don't want to step on anybodies toes >>>> if this would get in the way of the official release process for the >>>> various distros. And, if this got to the point of highly automated, >>>> perhaps the dev team would prefer to do the push themselves. >>>> >>>> --Steve
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