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 packaging Does this refer

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 them needs

Re: Ubuntu Packaging Guide

2011-06-05 Thread Martin Pool
://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 necessarily have to punt on UDD right away when working on a quilt3 package. What if you just want to do quilt import

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03, 2011 9:51:00 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: Just to pick one example, as soon as you want to work on a package with an out of date branch, you need to move from the UDD toolset.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

Re: Ubuntu Packaging Guide

2011-06-03 Thread Barry Warsaw
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 acknowledges. Depending on your level

Re: Ubuntu Packaging Guide

2011-06-03 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
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/packaging-guide/html/udd-patchsys.html By no means