Re: [Chicken-hackers] Debian package

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Ivan Raikov wrote:
>   Okay, wow, I didn't know there was so much drama involved in this
> :-) I assumed that Chicken used Automake/Autoconf, the way God
> intended, 

God is Satan.

> and since I have extensive experience with those, I didn't
> think there would be a problem adding the Debian files to the dist
> target. But I'll learn CMake, if you say so. Unfortunately, it's hard
> to deduce when the Debian scripts get broken, except for actually
> running the package builder. But I'll definitely keep an eye on those.
>   

You don't need to learn CMake.  The stubs should be fairly trivial; I'm 
assuming I just need to invoke your Debian tool, and that you'll provide 
the nice arguments for it.  I'm just saying, you need to work with me on 
getting this under the roof of the ONE TRUE "make dist".

Today I will:
- write the stubs
- talk to Felix about getting you Darcs access

> > So what I believe needs to happen is:
> >
> > - you need to be given proper Darcs access
> > - I need to provide you with the CMake stubs to fire up "make dist"
> > correctly for Debian.  Sounds trivial enough.
> > - you need to implement your Debian packaging, test it, and maintain
> > it, i.e. take ownership.
> > - you need to use CMake to do "make dist"
> > - I need to provide whatever system deduction checks and error
> > messages are useful for this, so that when (inevitably), someone
> > breaks the Debian distro, we know it has happened.
> > - Felix shouldn't have to do anything, unless there's some lurking
> > horror about texi that we've forgotten about.
> >     


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every