Re: General questions about debian-alpha...
Kevin Squire wrote:
>> built the package for Debian-Alpha. I kind of wish there were, but then
>> that would imply that there was a separate maintainer for the Alpha port,
>> which doesn't seem to be the case.... Should there be? (Side question:
>> are there separate diffs for alpha package builds from the original
>> source?)
Paul Slootman replied:
> If everything goes as it should, building the alpha version should be a
> simple question of taking the sources and running "dpkg-buildpackage -B".
Thanks for this hint ... I searched long and fruitlessly in the
documentation for that :(
> This implies that there are _no_ separate diffs for alpha; that should
> be taken care of with #ifdefs. If patches _are_ needed to build a
> package for alpha, the procedure (as I see it) is to build the package
> with the necessary patches, upload the package as a non-maintainer
> upload i.e. with a .1 suffix to the version number, and submit the difss
> necessary to the bug tracking system. Usually the "official" maintainers
> are good with applying those patches to their official sources, so that
> a future version builds cleanly on alpha without any intervention necessary.
I did this for Xemacs 20.4 but with the special xemacs-alpha patch (and a
bit of hacking). Could you point me to what I have to do to upload the
patched version? Should I try to generate the patch with #ifdefs (using
diff -Dalpha)? Should I just make the diffs? What if (as is the case)
only a subset of the packages can be made on alpha (since there is no -wnn
yet for alpha)?
Gee, I have many questions. I suppose the real reason is that I would like
to be a debian developer (after 2.0)...could one of you mentor me, please?
Then I can get serious providing the tools I install regularly (mostly
related to TeX, functional languages, and symbolic computation) as Debian
packages...
Cheers,
Kristoffer
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