Bug#722451: Packaging Compiz for Debian
Hello:
I had been working on a compiz package for the Debian X Strike Force
team a few years back but they were never interested. I based it on
their git repository and have been updating it since before compiz was
removed from Debian.
The package is in here
https://github.com/micove/compiz
It builds in amd64 and armel (well it's at 22% and slowwlllly
compiling with qemu) and tries to maintain an upgrade path with
0.8.4-5.2 and 0.9.2.1+git20110224.cb1268cb-1 that were previously in
squeeze/sid/experimental. The package does not play nice with Ubuntu
since it's based in the Debian package therefore the unity stuff is
missing and need a soname bump among other things.
The current source in
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-a11y/compiz.git is a bit broken
since dh-exec code does not work because the file is not executable
and multiarch in general does not work among other things. Also the
upgrade path for Debian is broken too since the package is clearly
based on the Ubuntu one. Debian had packages like
compiz-fusion-plugins-{main,extra,unsupported} that never were in
Ubuntu while providing transitional packages for packages that were
never in Debian. Basically several packages had different names and
even packages with the same name had different files which needs a
different set of transitional packages and Break/Replaces.
Not sure what the status of this packaging is but I hope this helps,
Miguel
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