[pkg-wine-party] Bug#793551: Bug#793551: Bug#793551: wine-development: Consider providing through Backports instead of Stable
On 07/27/2015 05:58 AM, jre wrote:
Backports is enabled per default on new Debian Jessie installations.
Is this the case though, or is it only for fresh installations? I used
dist-upgrade from Wheezy, and it was several months ago so I could be
wrong, but I don't think the upgrade touched my sources.list file. I
just had my stable and stable-updates sources, plus the wheezy-backports
line that I had entered myself.
PS: I'll look into your wiki changes later, thanks.
I'm sure a couple minor mistakes slipped in somewhere, plus I felt
someone else should do the section on packaging. Beyond the names of
some of the tools and the control file basics, I'm still learning the
process.
On 07/27/2015 02:07 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
It is possible to get a package which isn't in stable into backports;
it only needs to be in testing. (See for example my libevdev package
which ended up in oldstable-backports.)
That's the impression I had; the whole reason I enabled backports when I
was on Wheezy was to get pass, which only entered Debian with Jessie. If
keeping a frozen wine-development in stable has any upside for
maintenance though, or everyone thinks it's less confusing for users, I
have no complaints.
On 07/27/2015 06:49 PM, jre wrote:
Since Jessie 2 build-dependencies were added to wine-development:
- libxml-simple-perl (is in Jessie)
- khronos-api (missing in Jessie). I have to take a closer look on this.
Either I keep the way opengl is handled during the build as it was in
Jessie, or I also backport khronos-api.
Funny enough, I just stumbled onto libxml-simple-perl while looking into
multiarch problems. I missed it while putting together the WineWiki
Debian page because It was already installed on my system. I ran grep on
the entire wine source tree though, looking for references to
XML::Simple, and it's actually only used at one point in the make_opengl
script.
Apparently, it's been in use since a patch by Rico Schuller in late
2013, but it's actually not directly involved with building wine. If I'm
not misreading the code, that script automatically downloads OpenGL API
files from khronos.org, then rewrites some of the source files from
them. I don't know as much about the khronos-api package, but it sounds
like it could eventually supersede part of that script.
Cheers,
Kyle
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