Re: [MoM] New project for April (Was: New Contributor Game)
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:01:11AM +0000, Iain R. Learmonth wrote:
> >> http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html
> >
> > Yes, I read it once. It is very detailed, which is good, but it means that
> > it has
> > many things I did not understand. I'll go over it again (and again...)
>
> The Debian wiki is good for looking up things you don't understand
> related to Debian packaging.
+1
(Please keep us informed if we should provide more links in the policy)
> > I did not yet ask for an account. First I wanted to get things working at
> > home.
>
> Well, you don't have to upload your source package to the Debian Med git
> until you've got it working for the first version but you should sign up
> for an account at least:
>
> https://alioth.debian.org/account/register.php
+1
> > I have some questions. I only have Wheezy installed. I am able to compile
> > and
> > run the git version of SleepyHead on Wheezy. However, SleepyHead depends
> > on two libraries that are not in Wheezy but are in Jessy: libquazip and
> > libqextserialport. The SleepyHead repository contains a copy of these
> > libraries.
> >
> > Is Wheezy enough to work on packaging SleepyHead? Or do I need to
> > setup a Jessy or Sid?
> >
>
> I do my development work on Jessie. My understanding is that you can use
> cowbuilder to build for Jessie while working on Wheezy, but I haven't
> figured this out yet (Andreas builds my packages for upload as I am also
> quite new).
Yes, you can create a cowbuilder chroot on any Debian release (and I
think also on Ubuntu systems - even if I never tried this and you might
face pitfalls I can not help you out there).
> When you put your packages into Debian, they will be entered
> into Sid, then progress to Jessie. They will not enter Wheezy.
+1
Kind regards
Andreas.
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