Re: external packager

[Romain Beauxis]

Le Thursday 08 January 2009 16:59:08 Florent Monnier, vous avez écrit :
> Second the idea (when I saw it was possible for mandriva) is that the
> author of a software should be able to provide packages for all the main
> Linux distros (not only 1 or 2), and it would be nice if this could be made
> easy.

Provided that you can test the package.

Packaging is not only about preparing the package, but also maintaining it.
You can be a maintainer without using the distro, but if you do not use it and 
don't follow its developpements, it quickly turns into a poorest situation, 
where your package is broken and leads to a bad reputation for the software 
that it provides.

Ususally, packaging follows naturally the need for a given software, and I 
feel natural that it is not done by its author if he does not use the distro 
himself.


Romain


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Re: external packager

[Florent Monnier]

> > I am a very new packager for Mandriva, and discovered that one can
> > package for Mandriva even if he's not a Mandriva user because there are
> > test machines on which we can log on through ssh to do the tests and
> > submit the package.
> >
> > So my question is
> > is it possible too to become a Debian packager without using Debian ?
>
> On your own machine, you can "install" a Debian in a directory using
> debootstrap (everything is well documented in the Debian installation
> manual), and then chroot inside it and use Debian tools for packaging,
> testing your packages, etc. But of course, you should be familiar with
> Debian tools. Debootstrap is a script with very few dependencies, you
> should be able to execute it on any distro.

First I have only a small hard drive, how many space would I need for this ?

Second the idea (when I saw it was possible for mandriva) is that the author 
of a software should be able to provide packages for all the main Linux 
distros (not only 1 or 2), and it would be nice if this could be made easy.


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