Re: Best way to maintain a package for multiple Debian releases?

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

Dear Jarle:

I suggest you look into apt-move, apt-ftparchive or dpkg-scanpackages. 
The former will help maintain a tree sucha as in the main Debian archive. 
The other two will work on whatever tree organization you might want to 
set up for yourself.

I also suggest that you build using pbuilder.  For woody, sarge and etch 
it is farily straightforward, but for sid, recent changes make it a bit 
more difficult.


Cheers,

Carlo


On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Jarle Aase wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm about to make some .deb packages. Some will hopefully be accepted as
> official packages, while others will be built for my own convenience (to
> ease installation and upgrades on Debian servers I maintain).
>
> The packages includes shared C++ libraries, binaries, databases (MySQL)
> and some Java programs.
>
> I have set up a machine with Debian "unstable" to work on the packages I
> hope to get into the Debian distribution. I will however need all of the
> packages in a "stable" repository (for my own use) and some even
> backported to "Woody".
>
> How is the best way to maintain debianized packages that are bulit for
> several Debian releases? Should I use the approach described in "Debian
> New Maintainer's Guide", or some other tols like Yada?
>
> Jarle

--
Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics
Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College
Illinois Institute of Technology
Voice: 312.567.3498            Fax: 312.567.3494
Carlo.Segre@iit.edu    http://www.iit.edu/~segre