[Koha-devel] Debian Packaging

[Jack]

Dear Alex

Great idea.
I am using Ubuntu and will be getting Koha running on that to.
This may be of some help.

Regards

Jack

alex at king.net.nz wrote:

>I'm interested in having a Koha package available in Debian.  I'm also
>interested in helping to make it happen, although I don't have the
>skills to do it all myself.
>
>After a call on the koha list there are a couple of others willing to
>help with this.
>
>I'd like to invite comments from Koha developers.  Is it a good idea to
>go down this track?  Would people like to see Koha in Debian?
>
>My original plan was to do a basic package of 2.2.5 with some mysql5
>fixes, that would suit my own needs, and try to get it into Etch.
>However, others have suggested (Actually it was M J Ray
>http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2006/010508.html) modifying the
>code more extensivly to "look a lot more like the typical perl
>modules+scripts packages that you find on CPAN".
>
>If we're going to go down that path it would probably make sense to pull
>cvs and perhaps work more closely with the developers feeding back
>patches if this is seen as a good thing.  Following on from that, I
>guess this is the sort of thing that would happen in a development
>branch (3) more than a stable branch (2.2?)
>
>This is all getting beyond what I really want to do myself - which is to
>get together a package quickly.  I don't have the perl skills to do any
>extensive work myself.  However I am willing to put energy in and assist
>going down whatever path is appropriate if there are a few people
>interested and a clear path mapped out.
>
>Is this an approprate forum to discuss Debian packaging issues or should
>we break off into our own list ASAP?
>
>Looking forward to your feedback...
>
>Alex
>
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