Re: [Xnee-devel] Packaging xnee for debian

[Jeremiah C. Foster]

Sorry about the previous email, it got sent too soon. :)
 
> I don't know much about any of this, but perhaps it would be a good
> idea to seperate out libxnee entirely and make it a dep of xnee.

This is a good idea, and the way that debian usually handles
libs. Will this work hesa?

> The point of the library is to allow the implimentation of xnee
> type actions in other apps. Perhaps it would even make sense to have a 
> seperate dev tree and source package, as some groups have done. Perhaps that 
> would just be going to far.... but it does make sense to me to break things 
> into three main packages, and one dev:
 
> > > How familiar are you with building debs JD? Have you ever used
> > > pbuilder? (I just started to use pbuilder myself and find it very
> > > useful.) Your goals are to build a deb for local use, but if it
> > > builds and works, I think it should be submitted to debian so
> > > everyone can use it - this would be ideal I think and in keeping
> > > with Henrik's and my philosophies about Free Software. 
> 
> We've built tons of packages internally, and use them regularly for system 
> configuration, but we've never a distribution debian package here. I'll read 
> up on pbuilder. My initial goal was just to build a deb for internal use, but 
> most of the times we do this we don't start from source. Also, for internal 
> use we only really need xnee-cli. I'm doing this partially to learn more 
> about Debian package management. My boss has OK'd this partially also to give 
> back to Linux a little bit for the all the things we've gotten. One of my 
> coworkes has also joined the list, he's the current maintainer of our 
> (ubuntu) repositories and builds/maintains most or all of our internal 
> packages at this point. 

Excellent. Do consider going through the whole process of getting the
package into debian: i.e. sending a finished deb to the mentors list,
having a DD sponsor it and having it go through debian's fairly
rigorous testing process. This will mean that the deb you create will
be pretty high quality, and you will be able to create high quality
debs internally as well because of the experience allowing you to
make system admin a little easier. 

  
> > > As I said before, just fire off a mail if you want help or testing
> > > or what have you.
> 
> Will do... and I guess done... thanx. 
 
:) 

Jeremiah