2009/1/18 Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org:
Ben Klein wrote:
Hi Maurilio,
I see you've taken over building Lenny packages of Wine. Good work; at least now there are *some* updated packages available.
I talked to Scott a while ago about taking over from him for all Debian package building. I have an automated build environment that builds packages for all variations from etch/i386 to sid/amd64 (even the very annoying-to-bulid-Wine-for etch/amd64). The one thing that was stopping me from fully taking over from Scott was I don't have the resources to host the packages.
So I'm wondering the following:
- Do you think it's worth supporting Etch? (I argue yes, because it's
still stable)
I gave up on Etch because of a few reasons. Etch was missing some important libraries so bits of Wine would be nonfunctional on amd64, and when users reported bugs on them because of debian brokenness it was an added headache. Moreover, even at its peak the number of etch users was only about 1% of the Ubuntu total.
I know, it's a bitch. Biggest problem with supporting Etch/amd64 will be making sure the users install the dependencies properly. I could possibly do this by setting up a package (or series of packages) with the required 32bit libs and have them appear in the repository.
- Are you interested in hosting my Etch and Sid packages?
It's possible I guess, though it would be easier if you had your own server so you wouldn't have to wait on me for uploads.
Maurilio has offered to host my packages, which is probably neater than having a mixture of Etch, Sid and Ubuntu packages on budgetdedicated, and Lenny packages in his repository :)
- I'm clueless as to how to correctly set up a repository, so all I
have at the moment are the raw packages. Would you or Scott be able to help out with this?
The repository software I use is reprepro, however there are others that may be easier to set up.
Maurilio and I have been discussing his repository. The only thing it's missing is a GPG key to stop the message about unauthorised packages.
Thanks, Ben
I've also been playing around with -Zlzma. I can only get my packages down to about 11MB, even with dev headers removed. Is there anything else you can think of that you've done differently or specially?