Re: Hello, I want to participate.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Michal Bien <glorfdev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> I ran into so many problems with aleph one packaging that I'm not sure I'll
> even start with warsow. To be honest, debian packaging system is a crazy
> nightmare for someone who is unfamilliar with it (compared to archlinux's
> PKGBUILD's).
I'm not sure what resources you've been using so far to learn about
Debian packaging, but I highly recommend Lucas Nussbaum's
packaging-tutorial [1] for a relatively concise and hands-on approach
to packaging. If you've started by diving into Debian Policy or devref
(not such a good idea), I can't blame you for feeling overwhelmed.
Yes, Debian packages are more complex than e.g. Arch pkgbuilds or
Gentoo ebuilds, but there's not all that much that you _must_ learn
before being able to put together your very first package (again,
refer to packaging-tutorial).
Regards,
Vincent
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packaging-tutorial.en.pdf
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