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By: Diego’s Blog » Wohin der kühne Reiher fliegt, Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:57:09 +0000

[...] Pakete nicht gefährlich sind oder zu Konflikten führen und zusätzlich kann man so etwas für die Positionen als MOTU werben. Für Ubuntu 7.10 war es schon angedacht, dass der Windows-Installer Wubi integriert wird, [...]

By: rapidoda » Blog Archive » Ubuntu Forums: Ubuntu Development & Programming

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:50:38 +0000

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By: baps

baps — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:21:13 +0000

> packaging from scratch is moderately difficult. Upgrading a packaging already in the repos to a newer version is very very easy (basically just copy and paste)

So it’s like autotools, nobody can actually produce a working non-trivial setup from scratch anymore? But okay, I’ll stop whining now, I guess it’s time to give debs a second try.

By: Kyle Elbert

Kyle Elbert — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:41:09 +0000

packaging from scratch is moderately difficult. Upgrading a packaging already in the repos to a newer version is very very easy (basically just copy and paste) for some links see my blog (note I am also very new to packaging, but i did upgrade one package already (Tightvnc from 1.2.9 to 1.3.9)

By: baps

baps — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:17:37 +0000

Oh my, dh-make (or debhelper or whatever) is still there? Maybe it’s just me, but I find creating .deb packages very confusing. I wanted to create .deb for our software (some time ago, maybe even before warty), so I went to debian’s site for maintainers and there was this huge package policy document. I tried the helper scripts, which created a template file, which was full of strange scripts. I had so many problems doing it what I want, the deb package tool kept reporting errors and errors with really bad explanations (like “File XYZ has bad format”, but there was no documentation about XYZ!). I just gave up, I was short on time, so I took the RPMs that I already had (very simple to create!) and converted them to debs with alien.

I hope it is saner nowadays…

By: elitesq » Ubuntu Forums: Ubuntu Development & Programming

elitesq » Ubuntu Forums: Ubuntu Development & Programming — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:59:00 +0000

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By: jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:16:52 +0000

Thanks, I didn’t know about this! Maybe now I can get some help with the little packages I want to make — just my own defaults to existing packages.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:21:59 +0000

If we would do that, it would put to much clutter on the front page.

By: LaserJock

LaserJock — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:08:51 +0000

Great idea, only one problem, IMO. The forums are really down deep in the structure, would it be possible to move them up in the hierarchy so that it’s up there with “Main Support Categories” and “Other Community Discussions”? IMO “Ubuntu Development & Programming” is worth it.