Subject: 1.0 issues: Packaging (esp. source) Short Description -----------------
There appears to be concensus among the developers that the current source packaging system, which has debianized source packages, should be replaced by a system that uses unmodified source. Desirable goals for source packaging ------------------------------------ - Upstream sources should be used unmodified. - It should be as useful as reasonably possible for non-debian users and non-debian distribution maintainers. - The source packaging system should support non-intel architectures. Links ----- - http://www.redhat.com/alpha/alpha.html Red Hat's Linux on Alpha page. - http://www.redhat.com/rpm.html Red Hat's packaging system. - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bogus developers. - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/linux-faq/section1.html#cpu ports to other architectures. - http://www.freebsd.org/, http://www.netbsd.org/ The freeware BSDs. - http://www.wi.LeidenUniv.nl/Beheer/texi/standards_toc.html the GNU coding standards - vger mailing lists: linux-{admin,fsf,qag,standards} Proposal -------- - Distribute wholly unmodified source - Have the source extracted and patches by a 'debianizer' script. This could be akin to perl5-style patches (a sh script combined with the patch). - First apply platform-independant patches - Then apply platform-dependant patches - Then apply debian-specific patches (optional, but on by default). - Provide a standardized compilation front end (a la debian.rules) as part of the non-debian-specific patches. - Develop this (PCKGSTND?) in discussion with other Linux distributions, the non-intel porters, the FSF and perhaps the BSD distributions. Issues to be resolved / TO DO ----------------------------- - Tools for making a debianizer (anybody got a better name?) - Update the packaging guidelines - Take the pros but not the cons from current packaging schemes - How to do architecture-dependance stuff with the control, {pre,post}{inst,rm} files? Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
