Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH] debian: remove xeno-config from libxenomai-dev package

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net>]

El Dijous, 28 de maig de 2015, a les 01:51:31, Gilles Chanteperdrix va 
escriure:
[...]

dropped all your complains to debian. I must read and answer more careful and 
I don't know if the xenomai list is the proper audience.
 
 
> > > Just to add something more to the subject: I do not think being the
> > > debian maintainer of the Xenomai package is a hard task. I mean come
> > > on, it is just basically a Makefile shorter than some other
> > > Makefiles in the project. But this requires staying in touch with
> > > the Debian project to know what the "good practices" are, what
> > > practices have become deprecated and what new debian helper could
> > > make the packaging even simpler, things I do not care to do. In any
> > > case, this should be a good reason not to botch the task. A botched
> > > hard task is easier to understand than a botched easy task.
> > 
> > Just to inform, because i have been in silence all this thread that some
> > weeks ago (maybe two month) I contacted with the debian maintainer of
> > xenomai. I offered my help because I was interested in maintain the
> > package. We finally will work together, and the debian directory will be
> > hosted in collab-maint git, in alioth, a git server of debian.
> > 
> > Said that, because time constraints of the last weeks, I'm just in the
> > beginning of review all the packaging of xenomai. I will begin with 2.6.4
> > and after that, I will jump to 3.0 when you released an official one. So,
> > don't try to find anything there, because I have nothing done. I will try
> > to inform the list about my progress.
> > 
> > Anyway, the idea is to drop your debian directory and put a new one,
> > trying to use the "good practices" and the updated debhelper tools. I
> > will try to keep the package in a good shape, sync with the upstream last
> > versions, at least in unstable. If I could, some backport (because I used
> > it) could be possible.
> So, you want to reiterate the previous maintainer mistakes, and
> continue to maintain the Xenomai Debian packaging outside of the
> Xenomai project. See my last point for why this is a bad idea.

It's your opinion. I don't agree with you. Anyway, let me begin, try to find 
some kind of confluence that fits debian requirements and upstream 
requirements. Please, try to begin from zero, the past is in the past (Queen 
Elsa dixit :-))

> Please, come maintaining Xenomai debian directory, allowing us to
> review your work and discuss the patches proposed by Debian users.
> If you want to make a new release because of a correction in the
> Debian directory, we can arrange something I am sure with a
> maintenance branch, or a git tag.

Sure, we will find a solution. I'm a bit overflow these days. Let me try to 
work on xenomai packaging soon and we can discuss the rest.

Best regards,

Leopold

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