Re: Packaging task for newbies: Separate pink-pony into program and data
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 05:23:57PM +0100, 'lesleyb' wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:07:47PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> > 2013/9/13 lesleyb <lesleyb@herlug.org.uk>
> >
> > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 05:28:30PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Ive just uploaded pink-pony 1.3.1-1 to Debian [1] [2], and I've noticed
> > > > that I should have separated the packages in program and data [3],
> > > instead
> > > > of having it all packaged into one single package. The main advantage of
> > > > that approach -usually done with games and with other programs that have
> > > > considerable architecture-independent data- is that the space occupied in
> > > > the mirrors is much less.
> > > >
> > > > I was considering fixing it myself and doing a newer upload, but I
> > > thought
> > > > about what we were talking at DebConf about being able to provide
> > > > reasonably easy tasks for people who are starting, so there it goes. If
> > > > anyone is willing to do it, they will of course count with my help and my
> > > > time, and -obviously- I will be available for doing the upload to the
> > > > archive.
> > > >
> > > > Greetings and thanks,
> > > > Miry
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://code.google.com/p/pink-pony/
> > > > [2] http://packages.debian.org/pink-pony
> > > > [3]
> > > >
> > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-archindepdata
> > >
> > > Well I have been thinking about trying to package something for a little
> > > while.
> > >
> > > Here's a question though, the package is in sid and I'm running wheezy.
> > > Does
> > > that matter for packaging?
> > >
> >
> > Not really, as long as you have all the dependencies available in wheezy,
> > which is the case. I use pbuilder to create packages in a clean sid
> > environment, no matter what I'm using in my desktop, but don't care about
> > that for the moment.
> >
> > The brief answer in this case is, yes.
> >
> > The current version -everything's working except the separation between
> > program and data- is not yet available in the archive, I uploaded it a
> > short while ago, but it will soon be available at
> > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pink-pony/. At that point, the
> > easy way to check it would be:
> >
> > dget
> > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pink-pony/pink-pony_1.3.1-1.dsc
> > cd pink-pony-1.3.1
> > debuild
> >
> > With build-essential, devscripts and the building dependencies installed.
> > As it will compile and run without problem (provided that you have a OpenGL
> > 2.0 capable card available, or you have emulation via software as I do),
> > you will see that it will be enough for developing this package :)
>
> So I have installed pbuilder and created a base.tgz using this command
>
> sudo pbuilder create --distribution sid --mirror \
> ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ --debootstrapopts "--keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg"
>
> I previously retrieved /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg from
> Ubuntu using `apt-get install debian-archive-keyring` from [1].
>
> On attempting the `dget <URL>` as specified above, the extract failed because
> I didn't have the Debian developers keyring installed but this is also
> available from the Ubuntu repositories via `aptitude install
> debian-keyring` and a subsequent dget extracted the package with no problems.
> Alternatively I could have extracted using `dpkg-source -x --no-check
> pink-pony_1.3.1-1.dsc` which would not have verified the package.
>
> Attempting `pdebuild` in the relevant directory, produced
>
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 9) quilt scons
> dh-buildinfo mesa-common-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglfw-dev libxrandr-dev
> glee-dev libilmbase-dev libdevil-dev libftgl-dev libprotobuf-dev (>= 2)
> libtinyxml-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
>
> which is fine.
>
> I need to read the pbuilder documentation to be able to add these components to
> my sid chroot.
>
> regards
>
> Lesley
>
I forgot to add this :
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto
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