[Xenomai-core] Packaging issues - part 3

[Xenomai-core] Packaging issues - part 3

[Romain Lenglet]

Hi,

One more issue about packaging.

It is generally a bad idea to make "native" packages, i.e. to 
maintain the packaging files (e.g. the debian/* files) into the 
upstream repository.
Some packaging-related issues will arise, such as typos in 
package docs, file location issues, etc. and releasing packages 
that correct such issues should not require to make a new 
upstream release.
I therefore propose to make one separate repository for the 
packaging, for every distribution, and to have separate bug 
trackers (although Debian already has its own bug tracker for 
Debian packages), etc.


OK, that's all for the weekend...

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Romain Lenglet

Re: [Xenomai-core] Packaging issues - part 3

[Gilles Chanteperdrix]

Romain Lenglet wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > One more issue about packaging.
 > 
 > It is generally a bad idea to make "native" packages, i.e. to 
 > maintain the packaging files (e.g. the debian/* files) into the 
 > upstream repository.
 > Some packaging-related issues will arise, such as typos in 
 > package docs, file location issues, etc. and releasing packages 
 > that correct such issues should not require to make a new 
 > upstream release.

This looks like separated issues: fixes of the debian directory may go
in the Xenomai svn repository, and cause a debian package update without
a new upstream release. But there are maybe other issues ?

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					    Gilles Chanteperdrix.

Re: [Xenomai-core] Packaging issues - part 3

[Romain Lenglet]

> This looks like separated issues: fixes of the debian
> directory may go in the Xenomai svn repository, and cause a
> debian package update without a new upstream release. But
> there are maybe other issues ?

Alright, but we should be able to make changes in both the 
Xenomai code and the Debian files, independently.
If a package has been released, then if we want to release a new 
revision of the package that corrects Debian-only issues, then 
we must be able to ignore any modification in the repository 
that do not concern the Debian files, to create the new package.

We can do that with either separate repositories, or branches in 
svn.

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Romain Lenglet

Re: [Xenomai-core] Packaging issues - part 3

[Gilles Chanteperdrix]

Romain Lenglet wrote:
 > > This looks like separated issues: fixes of the debian
 > > directory may go in the Xenomai svn repository, and cause a
 > > debian package update without a new upstream release. But
 > > there are maybe other issues ?
 > 
 > Alright, but we should be able to make changes in both the 
 > Xenomai code and the Debian files, independently.
 > If a package has been released, then if we want to release a new 
 > revision of the package that corrects Debian-only issues, then 
 > we must be able to ignore any modification in the repository 
 > that do not concern the Debian files, to create the new package.
 > 
 > We can do that with either separate repositories, or branches in 
 > svn.

Handling a separate branch mean seems a lot of maintenance, whereas
updates of the debian packaging system would go in the debian directory
(I mean, except manapges ;-), and work on the trunk would never change
the debian directory. 

Maybe a lighter solution would be to maintain the debian directory at
another place in the repository, for example in packages/debian, and to
make it appear in trunk using the subversion svn:external attribute.
This way the debian directory would appear in all the releases of
xenomai.

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					    Gilles Chanteperdrix.