Re: mod_caml and cocanwiki (was: Re: Cocanwiki package)
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 02:42:09PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:49:20PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > I've looked at mod_caml and cocanwiki recently because I'm interested in
> > them. Still I've no time to be the maintainer of the package, _but_ I
> > will be happy to review and sponsor your packages.
Thanks Stefano for following up on this.
> > This means that _you_ will be the package maintainer, you would take
> > care of bug reports and so on. I (or someone else) would simply perform
> > the uploads for you.
> >
> > Before spending time on your packages, and since we have discussed this
> > issue many time in the past, I would like you to give me some answers
> > (already posed in the past for your packages IIRC, but never answered):
> > 1) is ok for you to be the maintainer of those packages?
>
> Yes.
Cool.
> > 2) is ok for you to work on the SVN repository of our alioth project?
> > It would ease our work. If the answer is "yes" could you please
> > commit the latest version of your package on the repository instead
> > of simply making the available on the web?
>
> Yes (see below).
Cool bis.
> > 3) are you interested in being an official debian developer or not?
> > Note that you can be the maintainer of your packages even if you
> > answer "no"
>
> Not much free time so I think the answer is no.
>
> OK, so I've checked out pkg-ocaml-maint from SVN, and in there I see a
> packages/mod-caml directory. I thought I'd start small by trying
This was the first try i did, and as thus is a rather older version of your
package, maybe the first or second we spoke about.
> to build the package already in that directory. I'm using:
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
Try the opkg-buildpackage tool in tools in the SVN repo. You use it by plainly
calling it in the trunk dir, containing the debian dir and the orig tarball.
> (This is ongoing, because it turns out I first have to upgrade my dev
> machine to 3.08 from Debian/testing, which I'm doing now).
Hehe. Debian/testing has 3.08 right now anyway. IF you really wanted, you
could create an actual sarge chroot or something.
> Is this the right way to go?
I think so.
> Is there any documentation I ought to be reading?
No idea about this one. The ocaml poackging policy, i think, and maybe the
subversion help/tutorial/documentation. Also, there may be some stuff
elsewhere, or in older mails in the mail archive.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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