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 ba...@ubuntu.com To: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Styles of Packaging (was: Deprecating the wiki-based Packaging Guide) Message-ID:

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

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

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

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

2012-12-18 Thread Scott Kitterman
Steve Langasek steve.langa...@ubuntu.com 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.

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 steve.langa...@ubuntu.com 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

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 may