[Koha-devel] Ubuntu support

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

I've been struggling with

$ dselect --set-selections install_misc/ubuntu.packages
$ dselect install

pulling i386 packages and trying to break my poor amd64 12.04 PVM, and
started to dig on problems related to Ubuntu support and docs
problems.
The most bugs reported have to do with docs being outdated. And
whether a patch should be applied or not depends on this question:
What Ubuntu versions should we support?

My vote is for the current LTS revisions only (lucid and precise, the
first being outdated for master i guess, not sure). Their 2-year
release cycle seems to be enough for having a fair recent version of
the required libs. So, this files might need being updated/deleted and
new ones created:

INSTALL.ubuntu
INSTALL.ubuntu.lucid
ubuntu_maverick.packages (delete or at least rename!)
ubuntu.packages
ubuntu-pkg-check.sh

I propose:

INSTALL.ubuntu.lucid
INSTALL.ubuntu.precise
install_misc/ubuntu_lucid.packages
install_misc/ubuntu_precise.packages

The idea is avoiding confusion. I'd volunteer to help on this task.
Bugs related to this:

- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7764 -
INSTALL.ubuntu needs updating
- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7759 - Use
Koha-Contrib-Tamil to update Zebra data in background
              (needs to be documented in the INSTALL.* files)
- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7858 -
Missing packages from install_misc/ubuntu.packages
- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8192 -
Update libraries and Missing library in install_misc/ubuntu.packages
- http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5217 -
INSTALL.ubuntu Packages/CPAN notes out of date for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
(Lucid)

Regards
To+