On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> wrote:
On 01/17/2012 03:25 PM, Louigi Verona wrote:
>> that may be a suitable short-term solution, but why not do it properly
>> and package it upstream at debian?
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594784
>>
>> robin
>>
> How is that done?

by doing it :)

It's the same process as creating PPA packages. Though, for Debian one
needs to be a bit more diligent (the package must have proper license
information, a man page and .desktop file,.. IOW be 'lintian clean' &
DEP-3 compliant) and become approved (find a 'sponsor' for your uploads).

details are at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging

After you're done, you can also push it into a PPA until the package
trickled down the debian-queue to your distribution/release.

I'm on it; call git-buildpackage on
https://github.com/x42/paulstretch_cpp/tree/master/

robin


Hello, Robin!

I apologize, I never created any debs. I did try to call
git-buildpackage, but it said home/louigi is not a repository,
so I guess I need to do some preparation, but most importantly -
learn how to do this.

I remember I did want to do debs, but it turned out to be a time consuming
and complex process.

I do plan to learn how to use PPA at least. Creating a PPA account might
be useful.

--
Louigi Verona
http://www.louigiverona.ru/