Re: Best Packaging Practices - collecting ideas (and texts!)
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:05:45AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 10:45:34AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > AFAIK, it will be integrated in the Debian New Maintainers' Guide.
> > But it's a good idea to provide a link to it from the Best Packaging
> > Practices chapter.
>
> BTW (just because we are adding links) is a good idea to add links to
> examples regarding packaging stuff that depends on some particular
> policy.
> I'm thinking about reporting at least the name of:
> - one Perl package that fits well with the perl policy
> - one Python package that fits well with the python policy (or the
> upcoming one because I'm not sure it have been officially released)
The issues involved in a good C-extension package (should really be
multi-version, if possible) and a pure python package (is usually
version independent, may need >> version, but there is a significant
risk of new releases not being backwards compatible in corner cases,
so << may be needed, as well) are sufficiently different that you
probably want an example of each, if you are going to do examples.
Jim Penny
> - one OCaml package that fits well with the upcoming OCaml python policy
>
> Regarding the last one I can say that the draft version of the policy
> can be found in /usr/share/doc/ocaml/ocaml_packaging_policy.gz and that
> a good example are packages libzip-ocaml{,-dev}.
>
> Cheers.
>
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