On Ter, 2013-05-07 at 14:07 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > On Wednesday 01 May 2013 22:21:20 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 03:00:34AM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=591190 > > I'm prepared to take debhelper. But: > > (1) It looks like the latest package is over 1 year old. I think a > > newer package should be presented (in this bug or in a newly opened > > one). > > (2) Can debhelper be used to make .deb's on a Fedora host? If it > > works, that would currently be very interesting to me. > > I'll start with (2): > * I can build .deb's on Fedora using pbuilder/pdebuild. > > * Here is the tree of RR for making it work: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=591388 > > * Credit goes to Jeroen van Meeuwen. I just joined to help move it forward > [ with very little success so far, mind you :-( ] > > * And yes, I think it makes Fedora a better development platform if you can > use it to build both rpm's and deb's (on Debian, you can do both). > > Now to (1)... Ouch: > * The stalling of po-debconf is my fault, but see today's update to rhbz#591389 > (I'm fixing my ways...) > > * If we resolve it quickly, the next is debhelper (rhbz#591190). IMO the main > blocker there is finding someone committed to review (I'm willing to maintain it). > There's another problem in the chain (dpkg too old), but hopefully it will > be OK soon (maintainer updated today the BR and said he would fix it RSN) > > * I uploaded a temporary pbuilder SRPM: > http://oron.fedorapeople.org/deb-package/pbuilder-0.213-1.fc18.src.rpm > - It's up-to-date (Debian/wheezy) > - But I didn't have time to clean it up for review. Hope to do this in the next > few days and update the RR. > > So maybe we finally have a chance to move this along before the > dedicated bug zappers would zap it (no criticism -- they work > hard to clean the mess we leave behind us). > > Unrelated note: > * I've been using schroot(1) a lot in the last years on both Debian/Fedora to > maintain multiple clean build environments of different OS. > * However, one of the most useful features -- snapshots via LVM -- is not > usable in Fedora due to rhbz#600636 > * That bug-report is stalled since 2010, and exactly a year passed since > I sent a tested patch... > > OK, back to work now. OK so lets cleanup all this reviews, do you finish the reviews requests ? I can only do it on week ends . we have Richard W.M. Jones and Dmitrij S. Kryzhevich also interested in this packages. As alien is ready just need be updated to 0.88 , the most priority are debhelper and po-debconf , but we can do the others Best regards. -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
