[Pkg-pagekite-devel] PageKite and Debian (forked from FreedomBox thead)

[Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson]

2011/4/26 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>

> On 11-04-26 at 09:24pm, Edvin Dunaway wrote:
> > so where do we stand in this? I gather that I'll be creating a second
> > set of .deb packages for the PageKite project, along with .rpm
> > packages for the Fedora Project later on.
> >
> > Jonas: you mentioned "CDBS and git-buildpackage", I'll be looking into
> > that, but is there anything you'd like to add to the specific
> > structure and making of the .deb package?
> > thought it was appropriate to ask since you're quite nailed down on
> > how to do things :)
> > I've already registered to the project and followed the steps
> > described by you in the post earlier.
>
> You are free to package in different ways - I only meant to say that _I_
> work in a specific way, so if you prefer different way than that, I am
> not participating (but we can still be friends! :-D ).
>

We are both Debian packaging noobs, so your way is as good as any other to
us at this point. :-)

We've got a draft package (mostly done by Hrafnkell) which fleshed out some
ideas we had about systems integration and the like, but we aren't 100% sure
the ideas there conform to Debian best practices and would like some things
changed for sure.

Do you have tarball releases of upstream code?
>

Pagekite.py itself is at this point just a single .py file with no mandatory
dependencies aside from Python 2.2+.

That said, it behaves better with a more recent Python and either pyOpenSSL
or python's native ssl are present and some other "optional" things
(documentation, config files, the like) have been available from our git
repos.  In the experimental debian package (Hrafnkell's fork on git) there
is also a man page, init scripts and the like, which I don't know if can be
reused or not.

So perhaps we need to start by defining a .tar.gz distribution which
contains everything we think belongs in the .deb ?

Are you familiar with CDBS and git-buildpackage, or should we go slow
> and I introduce you to them while we move along?  Are you familiar with
> Debian packaging at all?  Where are we starting off?
>

If you have the patience, going slow would be great.  We're both reading
about those tools at the moment, but it's a lot to get through.

-- 
Bjarni R. Einarsson
The Beanstalks Project ehf.

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