Hi,
intrigeri:
> boyska wrote (06 May 2015 16:18:52 GMT) :
>> By the way, do you have good resources to link about how to get
>> comfortable with debian packagement? I know there is plenty of it but...
>> that's exactly the problem! :)
>
> Fully understood.
>
> I generally point people to the packaging tutorial:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/
> ... since it's quite up-to-date wrt. current best practices.
I found it much easier to read the new maintainer guide first:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/.
> I don't remember if it mentions pbuilder/sbuild, though. Using one of
> those is a must. I'm personally using pbuilder, but if I had to learn
> from scratch today, with the background I now have I would probably
> pick sbuild.
>
> I'm Cc'ing U., who's been through that process in the last year or so,
> and thus might have better pointers than me.
> Also, I bet that Ubuntu has better introductory documentation to
> packaging than Debian, and 95% of what they'll explain should apply
> as-is :)
I also use pbuilder, for the sole reason that i did not know about
sbuild. Ubuntu has a very good documentation on this tool:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto They also document how to build
for Debian AND Ubuntu. Imho the most important thing is to have a good
building setup - that's half the work.
I have a lot of private notes about building packages / backports with
pbuilder, if anybody is interested, just send me an email and I can send
them to you. They're not in good enough shape to be published i believe.
Cheers,
u.
