Re: Howdy! Just a note to say I'm here
Hi Tony,
Interesting to see a fellow pascal/delphi/lazarus dude showing up on
another one of the mailing lists that I lurk on.
I thought Mattias had done a Debian package already ? Maybe you could
just get hold of his package and work with that..
Are you thinking of becoming a Debian developer ?
Are you thinking of trying to get Lazarus put into Debian ? I've been
having similar thoughts myself. Since Lazarus is relatively large and
complex, maybe there's some way that we could work at both being the
maintainers of lazarus. I've heard of that happening with some of the
other larger packages in Debian. Would this seem okay to you ? Would
this be okay from other developers perspectives ?
BTW, if you haven't already got one, you'll need to setup a GPG (Gnu
Privacy Guard) key for yourself and at the very least get it setup on
one of the keyservers out there. Most Debian transactions are done via a
GPG signed key. Let me know if you need some help with this as it's a
slightly arcane process.
Also, should probably contact the Debian fpc maintainer (I'll look him
up and have a chat with him). A browse through gnome-apt seems to
indicate that Debian's fpc is at 1.0.6 which means that lazarus will
work, but not wonderfully. fpc 1.0.7 would be better.
In terms of where I reckon I'm up to no the Debian scale of getting
ready to be a developer, I'd say I've got the coding skills and the
package knowledge (in this case Lazarus), but I'm falling short on the
general Debian maintainer skill set. Gradually working through the New
Maintainer Guide to remedy this.
Cheers
DC
On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 12:07, Tony Maro wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 18:57, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 tony@maro.net wrote:
> >
> > > I was reading the docs and it describes how to upload the i386 package...
> > > not mentioning the other files. If I created my package this way, does it
> > > somehow adversely affect the package to be uploaded?
> >
> > By "this way" do you mean copying the pre-built binaries into the package
> > build hierarchy? If so, yes, it does. It is a pre-requisite for packages
> > in Debian to be rebuildable from source. If they aren't, then it's not
> > going in (if only because it'll be utterly uninstallable on other
> > architectures).
>
> No, I definitely used the Debian tools to build the package from
> sources. The only problem is that the rules file must include an
> absolute path to the Lazarus development environment which is passed to
> FPC during compile - which will be different on your system than it
> would be on mine.
>
> If you wanted to rebuild the package on another system, you would have
> to edit the rules file to point to wherever you installed the Lazarus
> IDE.
>
> -Tony
>
>
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