Bug#793633: developers-reference: discuss how to handle backports
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:46 PM, James Montgomery wrote:
> wine-mono, I've logged all the dependencies required, meticulously,
> and would now like ask you how Debian deals with such build systems
> where the build comes from the wine-mono script.
>
> As you're aware, wine-mono has the custom build script in the
> repository. Would the approach be to to decompose that build script
> through a series of patches for the Debian system? I cannot fathom
> that it would be acceptable to wrap the wine-mono build wrapper. What
> is the best approach in these situations?
You'll need to get all of the necessary dependencies packaged in
Debian on their own. A lot of them like mingw are already done.
Stephen Kitt was working on mono a while back, maybe he can give you
better idea of what is still currently missing.
I'm willing to review and sponsor any of those pieces.
Best wishes,
Mike
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