Nut upsdev - Dec 2008 - [nut-commits] svn commit r1632 - in trunk: . packaging

Hey Charles,

adding Arjen to the list and upsdev for info...

2008/12/17 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> I noticed Arjen deleted the packaging/debian directory as well.
>
> I suppose the same argument applies to packaging/debian/ as to the *.spec
> files: it should track the specific distribution as well as NUT changes.
>
> However, it might make sense to keep that in revision control as well.
There
> is nothing preventing us from having a packaging/debian-etch or
> packaging/ubunutu-jaunty at the same level as trunk/.
>
> Ideas?
well, things are tracked within the project (ie Debian, Ubuntu, ...)
and even backports can be handled through these project's infra
(Ubuntu PPA, Debian www.backports.org, ...). Now, once again, these
packaging files not only need to deal with the according NUT version,
but also with the system's specifics (ie dependencies availability).
And this tends to make the things quite hard for us as an upstream.

In conclusion, I 2nd the removal of *all* the packaging from NUT
sources, and the delegation of these packaging tasks to the various
distro. The only point is to document, or point documentation, on how
to install these packages.
And there is still some work to be done here from our distro fellows!

As a side note, I will have some work in putting Debian packaging
files under SVN RCS control.
Ubuntu will also soon push a project to consider its packaging
complement as a branch of Debian's one.
So this will make things easier to track packaging under these distro.
As another note, most distro use RCS to track packaging evolution.

cheers,
Arnaud
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Arjen de Korte <adkorte-guest at alioth.debian.org>
>> Date: December 16, 2008 3:49:12 PM EST
>> To: nut-commits at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Subject: [nut-commits] svn commit r1632 - in trunk: . packaging
>> Reply-To: nut-upsdev at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>
>> Author: adkorte-guest
>> Date: Tue Dec 16 20:49:12 2008
>> New Revision: 1632
>>
>> Log:
>> Remove packaging directory. See the thread
>> 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsdev/2008-December/003559.html
>> for the reasons that led to this change
>>
>> Removed:
>>   trunk/packaging/
>> Modified:
>>   trunk/configure.in
>>
>> Modified: trunk/configure.in
>>
>>
=============================================================================>>
--- trunk/configure.in  (original)
>> +++ trunk/configure.in  Tue Dec 16 20:49:12 2008
>> @@ -866,16 +866,6 @@
>>  lib/libupsclient.pc
>>  lib/Makefile
>>  man/Makefile
>> - packaging/Makefile
>> - packaging/debian/Makefile
>> - packaging/mandriva/Makefile
>> - packaging/mandriva/nut.spec
>> - packaging/generic-rpm/Makefile
>> - packaging/generic-rpm/nut.spec
>> - packaging/redhat/Makefile
>> - packaging/redhat/nut.spec
>> - packaging/opensuse/Makefile
>> - packaging/opensuse/nut.spec
>>  scripts/hal/Makefile
>>  scripts/hal/ups-nut-device.fdi
>>  scripts/hotplug/Makefile
>>
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> Charles Lepple
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