On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:58:08PM -0700, Brad Roberts wrote: > [...] > > I don't know what's involved in getting built-packages into the > > various distributions. I suspect that a number of them prefer to be > > built by their own automation from original (or forked) sources. I'd > > be happy to engage with the appropriate people to explore ways to work > > together in this space. > [...] > > For Debian, the process is relatively simple: > > 1) Create a debian/ subdir in the source tree, with appropriate > control files (for existing packages, this has already been done) > a) Update debian/changelog to reflect the new version number. > b) Adjust any necessary dependencies, etc., in debian/control. > > 2) Build the package by running 'dpkg-buildpackage ...' in the source > tree. This creates a bunch of files (including the binary .deb) in > the parent directory. > > 3) [Optional] Preferably, test the .deb to make sure it doesn't cause > massive system breakage. > > 4) Upload the generated package files in the parent directory by the > build process, either by sending it to a sponsor or uploading it > directly to the upload queue if you have upload access. The dupload > script automatically determines which file(s) should be uploaded. > > Once the package is uploaded successfully, the autobuilder > infrastructure can be used to build the package for the umpteen > architectures that Debian supports. > > IIRC, once the package gets into the Debian archive it will eventually > find its way into Ubuntu (and possibly the other Debian derivatives).
That works well for packages which are single source tree. The current dmd, druntime, phobos, d-programming-language, tools separation makes that a little more challenging to put together, but not a lot. It's probably worth doing regardless. I realize that gdc and ldc are both in better shape in this area already. #4 there implies it's a source package, though I could be mis-interpreting you. Is there a path for externally built binary packages? That's fairly counter to the general distribution philosophy for most of them, so I'm giong to guess no. Thanks, Brad
