Hi Scott,
That sounds great - yes becoming a Debian developer is a little involved, but not impossible obviously - basically an existing developer has to sponsor us as you've already discovered, and then justification of the package(s) we want to get into the next testing/unstable release - the only time this is an issue is when people try to add a package for which another package already exists offering what this package does, for example offering to add some new http server which offers nothing over what apache already does - it has to have some unique quality to get in basically.
I've been out of the swap mailing list loop for a while, so as soon as I get a chance I'll go and see what you're referring to regarding splitting swarm into various packages. Having said that though - the Debian packaging tools already have tools and a mechanism for this kind on thing - so we have one build area to maintain, and in the 1 rules file we can define all the various packages we are building, so it `feels' like we're only maintaining 1 package, even though we're producing multiple. The other cool thing with Debian packages (unlike RPMs) is the post-install/pre-install ncurses wizard which we can have ask the users certain questions - which comes in handy for more complicated installs/upgrades.
I'm off to Melbourne tonight but will be back online in a few days - my sister's wedding.
Talk to you soon,
Nima
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Scott Christley
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Hey Nima,
That's great! We can work together on this, I want to learn because there is some other software that I want to turn into packages. I've talked with Jakson and he's happy to pass the debian package over to us as he's not really interested in maintaining it. I've looked at what he's done so far, and it looks like a good start.
What I'm not completely sure of is how we actually get it into main Debian, I think we need a Debian developer to sponsor us. Actually becoming a Debian maintainer appears to be a long involved process.
What do you think about my idea of having multiple packages corresponding to different Swarm variations?
cheers
Scott
On Sep 26, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Nima Talebi wrote:
Hey Scott,
I'm quite comfortable creating Debian/RPM packages, so I'll put my hand up for this. =)
Nima
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Scott Christley
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Hello All,
I would like to make Swarm a standard debian/ubuntu package so those users can just use the apt-get package system to install Swarm. Is somebody already doing this or has worked on this? If not, I'm gonna apply to become a Debian maintainer for Swarm.
thanks
Scott
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