Hi, On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 22:10:39 -0400, Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> wrote: > 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. All the dependencies are in, the hard part is getting a DFSG-compliant version of the upstream sources. The easiest way to get that would be to re-use the Mono team's packaging; I've asked them to provide a mono-source package (https://bugs.debian.org/785308), and we'd need the same for mono-basic. (The big advantage here is that we get security support and we don't need to go through a painful licensing review.) Once that's done, building wine-mono only involves pulling in the relevant source (instead of the git sub-modules used upstream), any appropriate fixes (basically the upstream commits which haven't been merged with the parent Mono projects; last time I checked there were 34 of those for mono, I haven't finished mono-basic yet), and then running the build script. Ideally I'd also like to use gcab and msitools to build the installation package, so we can build without wine; that really needs https://bugs.debian.org/793844 to be fixed though. So in summary, if you want to help with Wine Mono, you could: * come up with an equivalent to #785308 for mono-basic; * fix #793844; * triage the mono-basic commits from https://github.com/madewokherd/wine-mono (if any). I can push the stuff I've got already on Alioth if you'd like to join in. Regards, Stephen
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