Hi folks, Preparing next version for upload to unstable --------------------------------------------- Now that James has given us the go-ahead to keep the large packages for now, we'll prepare a new package for testing and upload that addresses the immediate issues. -6 will include: - The current pending fixes in CVS - Source package split of Debian specifics (see below) - Remove external libstlport dependency. This will go back in after the gcc transition. - Fix LC_ALL to work like LANG - Attempt a fix at the autopilots problem Quick source package split -------------------------- We can create a new source package containing just the files we add to the packages. These are: * wrapper script * README.Debian and TODO * man pages * Debian menu files and mime types Splitting these out will help us release updates to problems without needing to upload complete packages, either by documenting known problems and workarounds in README.Debian or by making adjustments to the wrapper. Rene has volunteered to work on the split. Future package split -------------------- In the medium term we need to start working on a proper split of the source. The source splits most naturally by toplevel directory / by project - this is how upstream works. Each toplevel directory is built separately and then 'delivered' by a script to a staging area (the solver). Each project lists the projects that must be built beforehand in util/build.lst, and the final project to be built is instsetoo. Instsetoo zips up all the needed files from the solver into one big bundle which is designed to be distributed. The setup application unzips all the files into their final locations and performs registration and configuration. We need to cut the installation set system completely out of the build. This is the place where all files are needed at once and force us to build everything in one go. By changing the deliver script to put files in a tree ready for their final locations, we can generate .debs for each project one by one. Most of the information is already inside the source - including the order of build dependencies which would be needed. The only larger programming task is the registration and configuration job, which has had some initial development upstream. Chris
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