[Sugar-devel] Multiversion Packages of toolkit.

ANIKET MATHUR amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in
Tue Jul 9 02:51:50 EDT 2019


Yes, Agreed. It would not be good if we configure the toolkit for only one
version of Python.
May we change our configure.ac as gyoto and dbus-python and then try?

Thanks!

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 12:18 PM ANIKET MATHUR <amathur at ec.iitr.ac.in> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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