Re: The Packaging Guide Needs Your Help

2011-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Jonathan, On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:24:56PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > The new Ubuntu Packaging Guide is nearing completion but needs your help. > Browse it at http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/ > Articles still to be written include > -traditional packagin

The Packaging Guide Needs Your Help

2011-08-02 Thread Jonathan Riddell
The new Ubuntu Packaging Guide is nearing completion but needs your help. Browse it at http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/ Articles still to be written include -traditional packaging -working with Debian and upstreams and in the knowledge base section articles needed on python, gnome

Re: packaging guide

2011-07-15 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 14, 2011, at 05:26 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: >I've been looking over the packaging guide for what needs done to it and >issues with UDD it reveals. Thanks very much for your great work on this Jonathan. Daniel asked me to review your branches, which I did, although one of th

packaging guide

2011-07-14 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I've been looking over the packaging guide for what needs done to it and issues with UDD it reveals. Here's my first merge proposal of various small improvements https://code.launchpad.net/~jr/ubuntu-packaging-guide/fixes/+merge/67951 Bugs I found.. 810564 merge-upstream fa

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-06 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 10:07 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Friday, June 03, 2011 9:51:00 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Just to pick one example, as soon as you want to work on a package with an > > out of date branch, you need to move from the UDD toolset. > > Or quilt. Ugh. If it comes down

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-05 Thread Martin Pool
on this page for several quilt >> packages: >> >> http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide/html/udd-patchsys.html >> >> By no means is it perfect, which everyone acknowledges.  Depending on your >> level of pain tolerance, you don't necess

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
gt;>quilt with bzr and try to figure out *which* way any particular package is >>using that combination.  I'll stick to apt-get source for those. > > I've successfully used the guidelines on this page for several quilt packages: > > http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
age is >using that combination. I'll stick to apt-get source for those. I've successfully used the guidelines on this page for several quilt packages: http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide/html/udd-patchsys.html By no means is it perfect, which everyone acknowledge

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jun 03, 2011, at 09:51 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >If you look at http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/packaging-guide you'll >find no mention of the 'normal' tools and processes that I (and I believe >most) Ubuntu developers use. This is not really an Ubuntu Packa

Re: "Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday, June 03, 2011 9:51:00 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > Just to pick one example, as soon as you want to work on a package with an > out of date branch, you need to move from the UDD toolset. Or quilt. Ugh. If it comes down to quilt, there is no way I'm using UDD until: - there is a *consist

"Ubuntu Packaging Guide"

2011-06-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
I just took my first look at the so called Ubuntu Packaging Guide and it's clear that a lot of work has gone into developing a useful guide for new contributors. It does concern me that the name "Ubuntu Packaging Guide" is really misleading. If you look at http://peopl