Re: [Freepto] Freepto Meeting _ 20150505

u:
> 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.

Oh, and you might want to /join #debian-mentors on irc.oftc.net for
packaging related questions.

u.