Re: greetd+wlgreet packaging and maybe joining the team
Quack,
On 2022-07-12 03:44, Marc Dequènes wrote:
I did not build greetd yet but here is the starting work is anyone
wants to have a look and has any advice:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/greetd
I worked on it today and I just switch to the packaged version and it's
working fine so far.
I found later notes in some script that recommended using the cargo
wrapper directly instead of dh-cargo but I did not find that very
practical since dh-cargo prepares a lot of things in the background.
Instead I think dh-cargo should be extended to handle non-source builds.
In the end I just moved the build from test to build stage and reused
all the hard work dh-cargo does, forced a release build, and only
managed the installation by myself since the top dir is a virtual
project and anyway upstream did not provide any rules. That makes for a
very simple debian/rules in the end.
The only thing that was unclear is how I'm supposed to generate
debian/cargo-checksum.json, I would have expected dh-cargo to do it and
I have no idea how this is done (no traces inside debcargo-conf either).
Jonas provided an example package he is working on and I borrowed the
little piece of code he made and that worked like a charm. I would like
to understand all this more though.
I also wondered why the output dir is set to
target/$(DEB_HOST_RUST_TYPE)/release instead of target/release, which
cargo (not the wrapper) uses by default, that would simplify passing
installation paths to dh_install.
Regards.
\_o<
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Marc Dequènes
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