Re: [Denemo-devel] Ubuntu PPA & Debian Packaging

[Till Hartmann]

On 31.05.2010 18:07, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 31/05/2010 alle 17.44 +0200, Till Hartmann ha scritto:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently planning to create a PPA for recent Ubuntu versions
>> (karmic and lucid, that is) (for those who do not know what a PPA is:
>> Personal Package Archive, where launchpad users can upload source
>> packages and let Canonical's servers build the packages for you. These
>> PPA can be added as a software repository to the apt sources).
>> To prevent redundant work and learn more about debian packaging, I would
>> like to know who is the deb maintainer for denemo (I've seen mails on
>> the list some time ago, but the denemo version packaged is already quite
>> old, especially as denemo's development process keeps getting faster)
>> and if you could help me a little bit.
>>
> 
> - formally, there is no debian maintainer - the last packages were
> uploaded as "quality assurance" uploads, which is what happens with
> orphaned packages
> 
> - more pragmatically, I'm the one behind those last uploads
> 
> - even more pragmatically, Josue Abarca is the one who already packaged
> the last denemo version and is currently trying to get it into Debian,
> and also to become its (official) maintainer.
> 
> 
> I guess he's the right person to answer more in depth to your questions,
> but since I did use several times some PPAs, I just add that the
> following:
> 
> git clone git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/denemo.git
> git-buildpackage -S -sa
> 
> should produce something almost ready for a PPA, though you will
> probably want to add a changelog entry in order to target the right
> Ubuntu release (and obviously give a clean "git-buildpackage" to verify
> it builds fine).
> 
> 
> One more step would be to patch the default settings in order to use
> pulseaudio (present by default in Ubuntu but not in Debian).
> 
> The Right Thing (TM) may then be, if that's fine for Josue, that you
> register on Alioth and create a separate branch for (the few,
> presumably) Ubuntu-specific patches.
> 
> Pietro
> 
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Thanks for both your answers.

I actually already sent libsmf to launchpad which built it for me
(libsmf is already available via my ppa [at
https://launchpad.net/~tillux/+archive/t-audio]). However, denemo makes
some problems; the funny part is: building denemo *locally* on my
machine did succeed, after I had removed the "autopoint" (debian
specific?) dependency from the control file, the launchpad build will
fail with though. See
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/49465059/buildlog_ubuntu-lucid-i386.denemo_0.8.16-3_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
for the complete buildlog.

Till