On 2012-09-26, Stefan Fiel wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
>
> Thank you very much for contacting us. We would be glad to have an
> official Debian package. Your help with the packaging would be
> appreciated since we do not have enough experience in making a correct
> package :)
Awesome! You already seem to have done a pretty good job out there!
> Since there are upcoming features for the next releases (like making HDR
> images (see our GSoC project)) which are requiring more libs, we are
> currently thinking about splitting up the package to reduce the
> dependencies for those who just want a simple image viewer. We don't
> know if this is desirable for packages in Debian and we are also not
> sure about the correct way of doing this. Would be great if you can give
> us some advices.
This is fine in Debian. Take for example the Nginx packages:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nginx
you have nginx, nginx-light, nginx-extra, nginx-full, which are all
compiled with different flags, and "conflict" with each other - so that
they can provide the same binary and you need to choose the one you
want.
I am not sure how they do that in the source package, we would need to
look at it. But basically, you, as upstream, just need to provide
./configure flags (or similar). Ideally, a single compile process could
generate all binaries so that it makes everything shorter, but it can
probably be done otherwise (again, probably how nginx works).
i can look into this further if you're interested, but otherwise here's
the git repository for the Nginx debian package:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/nginx.git;a=summary
Let me know if you need any help. I may take some time to adapt the
package from the PPA and upload it straight into Debian.
I can either keep you as a maintainer, which will make you responsible
for answering bug reports filed against the package and so on. To upload
the package, you will need a sponsor (I would be happy to do that)
unless you do not go through the "Debian Maintainer" process. :)
The alternative is that I mark myself as the maintainer and upload the
packages when you guys make a relase. I would prefer having you as a
maintainer and help you with only the uploads, however, as I am not sure
I will be using the software in the long run - I just discovered it. :)
Good luck,
A.
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