Title: Debian packaging Post by: wvengen on September 03, 2012, 07:06:15 AM Hi, I'm working on a source-based Debian package which I hope to get into the official repositories.
https://launchpad.net/~wvengen/+archive/music Is it true that the PDFs are not distributed in the official mma-bin tarball? I've put mma-libdoc(8) in /usr/sbin instead of /usr/bin, since it needs to be run by an administrator and its manpage is in section 8. Besides that I'm planning to package mma-songs and linuxband. Title: Re: Debian packaging Post by: alexis on September 03, 2012, 02:04:05 PM Excellent idea, wvengen.
Tested successfully under Ubuntu 12.04! Cheers, Title: Re: Debian packaging Post by: bvdp on September 04, 2012, 01:49:52 AM Glad to hear that you're doing the debian thing.
As you know, there is an unofficial .deb on the website. It's there since I couldn't get anyone to do a proper archive. The current mma.tar.gz does NOT have the pdf files; but the .deb does. Both have the html docs. I don't see a problem with having mma-libdoc in /usr/sbin. Your choice, really. I think packing the large example song file might be a problem. When I started this the original .deb packager wanted to do it, but the "lawyers" on debian had a fun day with that since it is obvious (to them) that the chords in the songs are copyrighted. I think I disagree, but it's not worth my time to argue the point. So, you might want to leave the songs on my site. Let me know how I can help. Best, Title: Re: Debian packaging Post by: wvengen on September 13, 2012, 01:56:25 PM As you may know, Debian packages are built from an .orig.tar.gz and a debian/ directory (as tarball or diff). So if the PDFs are not in the source package, it's a little complicated to add them cleanly. For now, I'm leaving them out.
I wrote some initial manpages for utilities that didn't have one, it may be useful to expand them and include them at some point. I incorporated the program's help message and some readmes. The copyright issue is interesting; if it remains a problem, I could split it into a different, non-free package. How is the licensing for the style files? I'm curious where they come from. Thanks! Title: Re: Debian packaging Post by: wvengen on September 13, 2012, 01:58:03 PM Oh, wait a minute regarding the PDFs. I see that they're quite large, and that you have a separate download. I'll make a separate package for them.
Title: Re: Debian packaging Post by: bvdp on September 13, 2012, 04:07:34 PM The copyright issue is interesting; if it remains a problem, I could split it into a different, non-free package. How is the licensing for the style files? I'm curious where they come from. Most of the style files were written by me and are GPL. A few were written by others, but they are the same license. So, no problems there. Title: Re: Debian packaging Post by: bvdp on September 13, 2012, 04:08:11 PM Oh, wait a minute regarding the PDFs. I see that they're quite large, and that you have a separate download. I'll make a separate package for them. Yes, that is probably easiest for all. |