[Sugar-devel] Multiversion Packages of toolkit.
ANIKET MATHUR
amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in
Tue Jul 9 02:48:09 EDT 2019
Thanks for reminding.
That's what I have got to track progress
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931666
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 12:15 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> Debian's bug tracking system should send you a bug number by e-mail.
>
> Without that number, few others will be able to see progress or
> outcome.
>
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:40:17AM +0530, ANIKET MATHUR wrote:
> > Reported the problem as a bug to Debian using the reportbug program.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 8:22 PM ANIKET MATHUR <[1]amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in>
> wrote:
> >
> > Sent the email to [2]debian-devel at lists.debian.org as well.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 4:13 PM ANIKET MATHUR <[3]
> amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Sent an email to the Debian user mailing list [4]
> > debian-user at lists.debian.org requesting for packaging v0.114.
> >
> > Packaging of Sugar-toolkit-gtk3 (sugar3) v0.114.
> >
> > [profile_ma]
> > ANIKET MATHUR <[5] 4:10 PM (2 minutes
> > amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in> ago)
> [cleardot]
> >
> [cleardot]
> > to debian-user
> > [cleardot]
> > 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 <[6]
> 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 [7]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 [8]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 [9]issue 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 <[10]
> 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
> > [11]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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> >
> > --
> > James Cameron
> > [14]http://quozl.netrek.org/
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> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in
> > [2] mailto:debian-devel at lists.debian.org
> > [3] mailto:amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in
> > [4] mailto:debian-user at lists.debian.org
> > [5] mailto:amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in
> > [6] mailto:amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in
> > [7] http://configure.ac/
> > [8] http://configure.ac/
> > [9] https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/2814
> > [10] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [11] http://configure.ac/
> > [12] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [13] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [14] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> > [15] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [16] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
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> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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