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Re: Non-Session-Manager



Hi Rosea,

I looked at helping Jaromir package NTK a long time ago, and looked at
packaging the non-* applications more recently. KX-Studio have managed
to package them. But now that Erich has packaged Raysession in Ubuntu, I
am not in so much of a hurry.

I think Jonas is right. It is not impossible - it is just difficult.
Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of spare time to help at the moment
either.

Maybe it would be worth asking upstream if they would be willing to
split out the different applications into different git repositories? It
wouldn't be that hard to do.

If they are not willing, then we need to decide how to do the packaging.
We could:
1. Package directly from the git repository, using a version number that
reflects the git commit that was used for the package, build all of the
applications (which I think was the default in the build system) and
install them into separate binary packages. This would mean the version
number doesn't match the different version numbers of the different
applications.
2. Separately download each tarball into separate source packages all
watching the same repository for new tarballs.
3. Other options???

Here are the tarballs:
https://git.tuxfamily.org/non/non.git/

When learning packaging in Debian, I highly recommend using Debian Mentors:
https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers
On the Mentors mailing list, you will find many kind people willing to
help answers those silly beginner questions.
You could always have the package(s) reviewed there, and then ask back
here for sponsorship.

On 06/03/2020 17:18, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting rosea.grammostola (2020-03-06 16:56:52)
>> I absolutely can't imagine that NSM can't get it into Debian. I'm 
>> determined to proof if. Any help to help me proof it would be 
>> appreciated. ;)
> 
> I agree it sounds quite odd if NSM cannot be packaged for Debian.
> 
> I am already overloaded with projects so will not promise to co-maintain 
> this, but I can offer to help advice if there are packaging questions.
> 
> 
> Great that you are stepping up to (try) do this, Rosea - hope you will 
> find a co-maintainer (as that is a requirement for maintenance in this 
> team - in my opinion a sensible requirement even if annoying at times).
> 
> 
>  - Jonas
> 


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Regards,

Ross Gammon
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