[needs-packaging] Packtools

[JC Hulce]

Simple metapackage that automatically installs everything you need to build and package software. When you install packtools, the following are installed automatically: build-essential devscripts ubuntu-dev-tools debhelper dh-make diff patch cdbs quilt gnupg fakeroot lintian pbuilder piuparts bzr dput

URL: http://launchpad.net/packtools
License: GNU GPL v2
Notes: Simple metapackage

[Davide Alberelli (dadexix86)]

Great idea!

I think it would be a good idea to include checkinstall, that creates also a
.deb file.

2011/5/28 JC Hulce <email address hidden>

> Public bug reported:
>
> Simple metapackage that automatically installs everything you need to
> build and package software. When you install packtools, the following
> are installed automatically: build-essential devscripts ubuntu-dev-tools
> debhelper dh-make diff patch cdbs quilt gnupg fakeroot lintian pbuilder
> piuparts bzr dput
>
> URL: http://launchpad.net/packtools
> License: GNU GPL v2
> Notes: Simple metapackage
>
> ** Affects: packtools
> Importance: High
> Assignee: JC Hulce (soaringsky)
> Status: In Progress
>
> ** Affects: ubuntu
> Importance: Undecided
> Assignee: JC Hulce (soaringsky)
> Status: In Progress
>
>
> ** Tags: needs-packaging
>
> ** Also affects: ubuntu
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Assignee: (unassigned) => JC Hulce (soaringsky)
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Packtools Intent to Package
> + [needs-packaging] Packtools
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Team UGR,
> which is subscribed to UGR (Ubuntu Gnome Remix) Project.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/789480
>
> Title:
> [needs-packaging] Packtools
>
> Status in Packtools:
> In Progress
> Status in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Simple metapackage that automatically installs everything you need to
> build and package software. When you install packtools, the following
> are installed automatically: build-essential devscripts ubuntu-dev-
> tools debhelper dh-make diff patch cdbs quilt gnupg fakeroot lintian
> pbuilder piuparts bzr dput
>
> URL: http://launchpad.net/packtools
> License: GNU GPL v2
> Notes: Simple metapackage
>
> --
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam
> Post to : <email address hidden>
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam
> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>

--
Davide Alberelli.
___
OpenPGP: 8CB4467F
___
On Google <http://www.google.com/profiles/dadexix86>,
deviantART<http://dadexix86.deviantart.com/gallery/>and
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Davide-Alberelli/135077949894816>.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

It's already built and functional ;)
I just fixed a few meta things and uploaded to REVU

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/p/packtools
In REVU
A few issues:
-I forgot to change it to Oneric
-Standards version. What does this do?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I created a very meta-package with the same goal after discussing it on the debian-devel mailing list [1,2]. Compared to your package, packaging-dev lists some items in Recommends instead of Depends. fakeroot is only a indirect dependency in packaging-dev. packaging-dev contains a few more items.

Can you check packaging-dev [3] and tell me if there is something missing?

I will upload it soon to Debian and then it will be synced to Ubuntu oneiric.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01034.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/06/msg00156.html

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Forget link [3]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/packaging-dev.git;a=summary

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

I did not know about packaging-dev at the time I created packtools. packaging-dev is a much better implementation than packtools, so packtools can be ignored. The dependencies are better in packaging-dev (as some are recommended), and there is nothing missing.