[Pkg-d-devel] Process for adding dinotify and unit-threaded

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hi!

We do now have a D language group on Salsa, which will hopefully make
collaboration much easier: https://salsa.debian.org/d-team
You can register an account at https://signup.salsa.debian.org/ and
then just create a join request for the D Team at Salsa.

A good package to get started with packaging a D library is D-YAML, I
think. I wanted to package that library anyway, and it already has a
Meson build definition, making it incredibly easy to create a package
for.
See https://github.com/dlang-community/D-YAML if you are interested :-)

Cheers,
    Matthias

2017-11-25 19:36 GMT+01:00 Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>:
> Matthias,
>
> […]
>>
>> I can help with that :-) If you are using Meson, there isn't much you
>> can do wrong. SCons is a bit trickier, but also not hard at all (I do
>> hope that that D bug gets fixed to make unit-threaded also work with
>> Meson).
>
> Meson is a very interesting merge of ideas from SCons and CMake, but it
> has some serious annoyances, e.g. no unity build for D. I still use
> SCons a lot, but there is apparently a lot of negativity about it as a
> build system within Debian packaging.
>
>> Do you have any (Debian) packaging experience?
>
> Creating packages, some, a long time ago. Being involved in the Debian
> process, none – other than bug reporter.
>
>> Looking at the packaging for gir-to-d might be a good starting point,
>> because it's pretty simple:
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-d/gir-to-d.git/tree/debian
>
> I'll try building an equivalent for dinotify since it is a single
> module system.
>
> […]
>> That's not an issue. Becoming DM would obviously be the goal here,
>> because that grants you the ability to upload a selected amount of
>> packages. However meanwhile I can sponsor changes for you (which
>> means
>> you would check in changes in Git, ping me when you want an upload to
>> happen and then I take a look at the changes and upload the package).
>
> I doubt I will be able to be at a key signing session to collect enough
> signatures. But I am happy to do stuff that then gets reviewed and
> either passed on or passed back.
>
> […]
>> Well, we will always have our own infrastructure, Gitlab means the
>> software here, not the service provided by the Gitlab company. Using
>> Gitlab was ultimately a decision made by our sysadmins.
>
> OK, that makes a lot of sense. I should have twigged to the "not a
> public instance". Hopefully the freedesktop people do something similar
> so the GStreamer workflow can enter the modern era.
>
> […]
>> Yes, having DMD would actually be possible now in Debian. I assume a
>> DMD package will be more advanced though and not as straightforward
>> as
>> a packaging a library.
>>
>> Also, there is the question of which compiler we use by default for D
>> packages in Debian. At the moment that is LDC, and at some point
>> might
>> be GDC even (depends on how it evolves). Reason for that is that we
>> do
>> want the optimizations LDC/GDC provide over DMD, and since we have
>> plenty of build power, buildtimes don't matter at all.
>> We still should have DMD in the archive though - we'd just need
>> someone to maintain the package ;-)
>
> The general "prejudice" seems to be: DMD is the reference
> implementation is a fast compiler but generates not the best generated
> code; LDC has a recent D front end, the LLVM backend produces good code
> but is slow; GDC is part of the GCC suite so generates good code but
> the front end is not as recent a D front end as LDC. I'd say LDC is the
> right compiler for packaging, at least just now.
>
>> It looks like the new infrastructure on salsa.debian.org isn't ready
>> yet, so we can use the existing infrastructure for now. Just create
>> an
>> account at https://alioth.debian.org/ and request to be added to the
>> D
>> team: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-d/ (there should be a
>> button for that somewhere).
>
> Done and done.
>
>> That is a prerequisite to give you access to the D-team Git
>> repository
>> at https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-d/
>> How to build packages with git-buildpackage might also be interesting
>> to you (https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit has a bit of
>> information, but there are a lot of different styles on how to layout
>> the Git repository, so don't get confused by that).
>
> I'll check these out.
>
> --
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