[freenet-dev] [GSoC] Packaging and setup process

[Obey Arthur Liu]

Sven-Ola Tücke a écrit :
> Am Sonntag 23 März 2008 10:39:32 schrieb Obey Arthur Liu:
>   
>> Joel C. Salomon a écrit :
>>     
>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Matthew Toseland
>>>
>>> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>  > I thought that Update over Mandatory was implemented at this point,
>>>>  > negating this problem?
>>>>
>>>>  It does if you enable the updater. But that might trip up the
>>>> packaging.
>>>>         
>>> On Debian & Ubuntu, package installation scripts can download recent
>>> versions of the software, so auto-update shouldn't be too much of a
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> --Joel
>>>       
>> The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the
>> software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of
>> packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are
>> non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package...
>> And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron.
>>
>> Obey Arthur Liu
>>     
>
> Yep - and there's more. Not beeing able to provide a decent makefile to 
> generate *.o, *.so, or *.a with a simple "apt-get source freenet" will place 
> you in the non-free section anyhow AFAIK...
>
> // Sven-Ola
>   
Making a build-everything-from-source build file was part of my project
so hopefully this issue can be resolved.
There are some exotic dependencies but they are all dfsg-compliant, so
it's ok.

Obey Arthur Liu

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