Re: State of Debian Packaging

2013-06-26 Thread Noah Slater
My preference is that we keep packaging out of couchdb.git. I have seen on other projects that source releases have to be cancelled mid-vote because of some bug in the Debian packaging. Our releases are painful enough, so I'd rather avoid this. What I'd suggest is that you request a new Git repos

Re: State of Debian Packaging

2013-06-26 Thread Robert Newson
+1 to keeping it separate, isn't that what Debian recommend anyway? Fairly sure those git tools are about the debian folder with branches to track pristine upstream. That just happens to also be us. On 26 June 2013 14:23, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: My preference is that we keep

Re: State of Debian Packaging

2013-06-26 Thread Benoit Chesneau
If that helps, in gunicorn we used to have all the packaging in the repo, then the debian upstram packager asked to us to remove it if we can. (we removed it). So I guess it's probably better to keep the packaging outside the main repo. - benoit On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Robert Newson

Re: State of Debian Packaging

2013-06-21 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 10:53 -0700, Randall Leeds wrote: I saw that my packaging efforts came up in the IRC meeting yesterday and I wasn't there to report. Here's what's done: - Split the packaging into couchdb and couchdb-bin as Ubuntu did downstream Will check why it makes sense. You

State of Debian Packaging

2013-06-20 Thread Randall Leeds
I saw that my packaging efforts came up in the IRC meeting yesterday and I wasn't there to report. Here's what's done: - Imported the most up-to-date .dsc from unstable using git-buildpackage tools - Imported the rc.2 release tarball that passed vote - Updated to use the virtual libcurl-dev,

Re: State of Debian Packaging

2013-06-20 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
On 20 June 2013 19:53, Randall Leeds randall.le...@gmail.com wrote: I saw that my packaging efforts came up in the IRC meeting yesterday and I wasn't there to report. Here's what's done: - Imported the most up-to-date .dsc from unstable using git-buildpackage tools - Imported the rc.2

Re: State of Debian Packaging

2013-06-20 Thread Randall Leeds
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Dave Cottlehuber d...@jsonified.com wrote: I'd like to merge my windows build scripts into couchdb proper (I will open a JIRA for that), and during the release process, we currently stash binaries / packages into svn