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[therion-users] Debianizing therion
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Wookey |
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[therion-users] Debianizing therion |
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Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:42:50 +0000 (GMT) |
I've started packaging therion and am begining to understand how it goes
together.
I have a fundamental question to ask before I do much more:
Do the upstream authors (that Stacho and Martin) want this to be a native
debian package or not?
In a normal package there is the tarball I get from upstream, then there is
a set of debian patches that are applied to it to make it fit the debian
path and rules and add a debian 'control' file (really a makefile) that
makes sure the package can be built in the right way so it will work on
autobuilders.
In a native debian package there is no patch to make these changes - the
control files are in the normal tarball. Survex is done this way.
It is entirely up to you guys which way we do this. A native package is
simpler and is slightly less work overall, but it does move some
responsibility for making the build-process work right from me to you, and
you may not want to do that, or not yet.
In practice it mostly means adding a /debian dir that I supply, and maybe
some build-process changes if necessary.
Tell me what you think. In a week or so I expect I'll send you the first
version to look at.
Wookey
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