Re: [Xenomai] Packaging Xenomai-3

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

El Dilluns, 26 de gener de 2015, a les 19:20:46, Gilles Chanteperdrix va 
escriure:
> > 
> > That's the point Gilles. Debian doesn't accept that [1].
> 
> No, you missed the point. Entirely. The point is distribution rules
> apply to re-packaging made for distributions. Not to upstream
> packages. So, basically, Xenomai upstream package does not care
> about any distribution rules, and the job of the Debian maintainer
> is to massage Xenomai installation so that it fits Debian rules.

The main idea is to collaborate with upstream in the way that both could make 
a good work that benefits all together. Obviously, this kind of rules doesn't 
affect upstream. My sentence was about that if you implement something that 
debian (or whatever distro) doesn't accept, the maintainer has double work 
patching it to be included. That's all, my propose was to have something that 
could benefit all the parts.

> Look for instance at how the libcurl3 packages are made. libcurl3 can
> use openssl, gnutls or nss as providing TLS, but was not meant to
> run the three at a time. Debian wants to be able to install the
> three version, so what does the Debian rules does ? They manage to do
> it.

AFAIK, looking the sources of the package, the names of the libraries are 
different. And installing in my box I have:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-nss.so.4.3.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl-gnutls.so.4.3.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4.3.0

that comes from libcurl3-nss, libcurl3-gnutls and libcurl3. The last one  
(OpenSSL flavour)

> Putting things into several directories was just one proposed
> solution, but it is not by any mean the only one.

I agree. I would like to find something that could benefit all the parts. If you 
prefer not rename, no problem. I though that it could be a good idea for all. 
Also I have to say that I don't think that it has sense to implement it in 
packaging. This kind of modifications have to have a very good reason to 
diverge from upstream.

Leopold

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/curl.git

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