Re: feature request

["tarsnap@sehe.nl" <tarsnap@sehe.nl>]

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On 12/13/2011 12:31 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
> I'm a FreeBSD guy so I'm a bit clueless (ok, a lot clueless) where
> Debian packaging is concerned. I've got packaging metadata in the
> Tarsnap source tarballs (thanks to Mads Sulau Joergensen!) which I
> think should make it easy to build Debian packages.
Yup.

I found _those_ only after spending 35 minutes with debhelper creating
my own. Needless to say, I ditched my effort in favour of the debian
control directory already in your source tarball.

> What would be involved here? Google is finding me a bunch of
> documentation on "setting up an apt repository" but it's not
> immediately clear if those are the relevant instructions if I'm
> just trying to distribute a single application.
Honestly, I don't have much of a clue either. I just know that
Ubuntu's Launchpad makes it fairly easy to set it up. It is probably
better to host a PPA (which IIRC is in the end nothing more than a
statically served directory tree on a webserver). I haven't tried that
before.

As far as I can tell, the packages at least _build_ for Ubuntu Natty
(using the existing debian package metadata). I'll see if there are
any loose ends on the content side of things.

Seth
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