[Sugar-devel] Multiversion Packages of toolkit.

[ANIKET MATHUR]

Sent an email to the Debian user mailing list
debian-user at lists.debian.org requesting
for packaging v0.114.

Packaging of Sugar-toolkit-gtk3 (sugar3) v0.114.
ANIKET MATHUR <amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in>
4:10 PM (2 minutes ago)
to debian-user
G'day,
Aniket Mathur this side, an active contributor of Sugarlabs as well as a
GSoC 19 participant. This mail is a small query regarding the packaging of
"sugar3" module.

We currently have v0.112 packaged. In the latest version (0.114) Sugarlabs
have made the toolkit compatible with both Python and Python 3. But we
don't have Debian multi-version packages for the latest version. This
prevents us to scale our testing as well as limits the number of testers.

We don't know how to make multi-version local packages, that we can
distribute for testing.

It would be good if we have Debian packages for v 0.114.

Need Help.
Regards.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 12:02 PM ANIKET MATHUR <amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in> wrote:

> Yes, I was asking about Debian packages. Sorry for incomplete information.
>
> I read sources of some Debian packages:-
> ~ They do use six for keeping multi-version compatibility.
> ~ Instead of a configure.ac, they use setup.py.
> ~ In setup.py, they define entry-points as per the commands from the
> command line specifying python-foo or python3-foo.
>
> I also did a github search for 'python configure.ac' , looked into a
> considerable amount of commits of different users and organizations with
> the motive of "why don't we ask for help from those who seems to be
> successful in doing it".
>
> From my research, I found out that the guys at "balabit" seems to be able
> to do it.
> I opened an issue <https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/2814> asking
> for help and clearance.
>
> The next step is to contact the Debian developers.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 5:21 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> You neglected to mention that you are asking about Debian and Ubuntu
>> binary packages.  Ubuntu packages come from Debian unchanged, so your
>> question can be reduced to Debian packaging.
>>
>> We're the wrong people to ask.  It's not a skill any of us at Sugar
>> Labs have, otherwise we would have done it by now.
>>
>> The people who know how to do this are Debian and Ubuntu package
>> developers.
>>
>> I've tried asking one of the Debian developers but they were too busy
>> to give private assistance.  Private assistance does not scale, so the
>> return on investment is meagre.
>>
>> I suggest you try these things;
>>
>> 1.  write a throw-away script to download all Debian packages that
>> depend on Python 2 or Python 3, intersect a union of source packages
>> that support both versions, and then list those packages that contain
>> configure.ac in the source package,
>>
>> 2.  review those Debian and Ubuntu source packages that are used to
>> generate binary packages for both Python 2 and Python 3, and list the
>> package design patterns that you observe,
>>
>> 3.  contact the Debian developers using their mailing lists, or other
>> methods,
>>
>> 4.  engage in the Debian project by reporting a bug that asks for
>> packaging of a new version of the toolkit; currently 0.112 is
>> packaged.
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 02:32:33PM +0530, ANIKET MATHUR wrote:
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > I have been working on developing multi-version packages for toolkit
>> which can
>> > build for both Python and Python 3. I successfully build packages for
>> python,
>> > but not able to yet built one's having multi-version support. I have
>> been
>> > working on this for some time in the last two weeks, trying to get
>> something
>> > from the source code of existing tools that have these packages, like
>> 'pip' and
>> > a lot more.
>> >
>> > I need help and suggestions in this work. :-)
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>>
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>>
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