Re: where could I point to documentation about packaging leaf packages when trying to get a new package into Debian ?
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On 12/09/2018, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reply in-line :-
>
> On 10/09/2018, Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi Shirish शिरीष
>>
>
> Hi Joost,
>
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 02:41:12PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Do we have some documentation or a diagram which explains how
>>> packaging leaf packages makes it easier for a new biggish package to
>>> enter into Debian ?
>>>
>>> I tried quite a few times yesterday and even today to find not overly
>>> technical document which talks on this topic and failed.
>>>
>>> Could somebody point me to the right direction please ?
>>
>> I guess you'd either have to find a document explaining what a dependency
>> is
>> (and/or a build-time dependency), or, alternatively, tell which software
>> you're dealing with & explain what it exactly means for this specific
>> software.
>>
>> I tried to find a introductory text explaining dependencies, but failed
>> :(
>> I'm sure there is one online, somewhere.
>>
>
> There is a simulation game called mars-sim or mars simulation .
>
> https://github.com/mars-sim/mars-sim/
>
> The basic hypothesis of the game is either the State, Governments or
> whoever sends a team to Mars to make a settlement there.
>
> I have been engaging with upstream
>
> https://github.com/mars-sim/mars-sim/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+author%3Ashirishag75
>
> to figure out various issues so it could be packaged and also make it
> easier. Upstream so far, has been pretty positive about the whole
> thing.
>
> Now there are two different broad issues I am facing there in -
>
> a. The graphical port they were using before was Oracle Java which
> after my attempts has been tuned to be compiled under openjdk 9 and
> later. I am hoping that openjdk 12 and openjfx 12 which are supposed
> to come by the end of the month gets in Debian fast, even if it's
> experimental so have something to test against. It uses openjdk and
> openjfx for the graphical UI among other things, but this is something
> I/we cannot plan for . I have already asked for a console version in
> the mean-time so people could use it instead of having to wait for
> things to settle down in the openjdk world (and debian thereafter.)
>
> b. More sort of damaging though is that it uses maven and has 8-9
> different pom.xml under various modules -
>
> From ~/games/mars-sim$ cat pom.xml | more
>
> ... After a few lines -
>
> <modules>
> <!--module>mars-sim-android</module -->
> <module>mars-sim-core</module>
> <module>mars-sim-headless</module>
> <module>mars-sim-main</module>
> <module>mars-sim-mapdata</module>
> <module>mars-sim-network</module>
> <!--module>mars-sim-service</module -->
> <module>mars-sim-ui</module>
> </modules>
>
> Each pom.xml has these artifactId which are dependencies which may or
> may not be in Debian.
>
> If we could find both run-time and build-time leaf dependencies of the
> game which may have value of being in Debian or if something is not
> being developed or maintained anymore and we could suggest better
> alternatives it would be nice.
>
> I did a poor job but did try to bring attention to
> https://github.com/mars-sim/mars-sim/issues/78 , maybe there is a
> better way ?
>
> I have also shared the Upstream Guide
> https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide but finding a way out I don't
> know how ?
>
> Can somebody help ?
>
>> HTH, Bye,
>>
>> Joost
>>
>>
>
>
I did start some discussions at https://github.com/mars-sim/mars-sim/issues/75
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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