Re: Debian and Ubuntu packages - 2015/06/03

[Ivan Vučica]

Breakage that I discovered during the GS meeting (Debian package build system complaining about libobjc missing specification of dependencies) has been fixed. I'll send an update when I am ready to upload new packages to a PPA.

I could not squeeze cmake's cpack into submission to build the binary deb package correctly (to produce the
.shlibs file), so I have given up on this, and packaging is done using plain-old debianhelper-based system. As an added bonus, now this system produces a Debian source package for libobjc2 as well!

I've also switched to git repo for libobjc2. Where I left things off, gnustep-gui did not build correctly, but that's a matter of some more tweaking.

Next up:
- replacing DEB_MAINTAINER with DEB_FULLNAME and DEB_EMAIL (if I recall the variable names correctly) which is what dch tool for updating changelogs uses
- docker system should let you use your own gpg key and specify DEB_{MAINTAINER,FULLNAME,EMAOL}
- moving away from interdependant shellscripts into a set of dockerfiles (making use of docker's caching) which will only depend on previous container's DEB file outputs, and not on the rest of the filesystem contents

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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015, 10:47 David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> wrote:

On 7 Jul 2015, at 17:53, Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net> wrote:
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> - It's still using libobjc2 from GNUstep's Subversion repository, and not the one in David's repository on Github

FYI: This is now moved back to the GNUstep organisation on GitHub[1] and that’s where the FreeBSD port fetches it from (GitHub can produce tarballs from unreleased revisions, so it’s nice and easy to package unreleased code).  Please don’t use the one that’s under my user on GitHub.

We’ve been using it here and I’ve not had any other bug reports from FreeBSD users, so I intend on pushing out a new release this weekend.

David

[1] https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2

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