[Its.an.education.project] Debian packaging (Was: Introducing: Jonas Smedegaard)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 10:07:33PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>  I am Debian Developer, part of the Debian OLPC Team, and am working 
>>  actively in packaging Sugar officially for Debian.
>>
>>  Ubuntu and Debian software packaging is technically almost 
>>  identical. More info on why I chose to not reuse the earlier efforts 
>>  of Jani Monoses is at our mailinglist here: 
>>  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-olpc-devel/2008-April/000084.html
>
>Is there. a way to automate conversion from an xo bundle to a Debian 
>package? Should we just let you deal with the process?

Not fully automated, but I strive to hide the complex parts behind a 
middle layer (that's the "cdbs" part of above referenced posting).

Proper packaging is more than shrink-wrapping.  It is also making sure 
that the package works well together with the surrounding packages of a 
distribution.  So even if some xo2deb script is written (which shouldn't 
be that difficult, actually), one would still want to polish the result, 
based on deeper knowledge of the distribution packaged for.

I suggest we avoid going into technical details specific to Debian here. 
Anyone interested in Debian packaging of Sugar stuff please join us 
(even if you are new to the fine art of software packaging): 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-olpc-devel


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
* Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/

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