Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based, Packaging Guide)

2012-12-20 Thread Bouchard Louis
Hi, Le 20/12/2012 13:00, ubuntu-devel-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com a écrit : > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:16:49 -0500 From: Barry Warsaw > To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Styles > of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide) > Message-ID: <20121

Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 18, 2012, at 06:05 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >UDD poses a different set of problems. I'm not sure how relevant it is to >the upstream developer who just wants to package their software; at the very >least, I think the developer docs should explicitly deal with the >possibility that the ups

Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Steve Langasek wrote: >On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 09:19:31PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> Steve Langasek wrote: > >> >On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:08:04AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> >> 1. While there are sponsors that prefer branches over >debdiffs/source >> >> packages uploaded somewher

Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 09:19:31PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:08:04AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> 1. While there are sponsors that prefer branches over debdiffs/source > >> packages uploaded somewhere, I don't know of any that will

Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Steve Langasek wrote: >On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:08:04AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> 1. While there are sponsors that prefer branches over >debdiffs/source >> packages uploaded somewhere, I don't know of any that will only >sponsor >> branches. The reverse is not true. There are develope

Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:08:04AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > 1. While there are sponsors that prefer branches over debdiffs/source > packages uploaded somewhere, I don't know of any that will only sponsor > branches. The reverse is not true. There are developers that don't do > UDD sponsor

Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 03:16:13PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: > While it may appear that way at first glance, this is very much an > intentional consequence of policy-based packaging, which Ubuntu inherits > from Debian. By having packaging judged against policy, rather than > against some ar

Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 18, 2012, at 02:08 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >2. For developers that have a significant interest in a specific package, we >generally recommend that they submit that package to Debian (although it >might be accepted to Ubuntu first). Debian doesn't use Ubuntu UDD (in fact >the acronym UD

Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 03:16:13 PM Emmet Hikory wrote: > There is definitely a set of tools that are currently the most popular > in the Debian archive, and these integrate well with a set of tools being > developed under the "Ubuntu Distributed Development" moniker, which > combination

Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide)

2012-12-17 Thread Emmet Hikory
Mike Carifio wrote: > On 12/17/2012 08:11 PM, Emmet Hikory wrote: > > packaging guide, I think there is value in being clear that folk who wish to > > package have a plethora of options available: by all means, let's advocate > > the > > latest labour-saving mechanisms, but at the same time, I thi