[Koha-devel] Fwd: Packing needs - status to add to bugzilla and the dashboard?

[Brendan Gallagher]

Thanks Liz.

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From: Liz Rea <liz at catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Packing needs - status to add to bugzilla and the
dashboard?
To: Brendan Gallagher <info at bywatersolutions.com>


Robin wrote a couple of quite good wiki pages on this subject:

https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Building_Debian_Dependencies
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Building_Debian_Dependencies/Dependency_Guidelines




On 09/03/16 06:50, Brendan Gallagher wrote:

Yup all good points.  Not to put it all on the PM - but I think a way to
track this in BZ is needed.  A better workflow - perhaps based on Chris's
point - a "failed QA - needs package" status (or some worded status)?

Do we have a defined role description of responsibility of the Packaging
Manager?  (I've only read Robin's posts to the mailing list before - is
that it?)


On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>
<gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:


Hi,

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Chris Cormack
<chrisc at catalyst.net.nz> <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>
wrote:

I don't think it's fair to push this all on the package manager. If a dev


introduces new dependencies that need packaging, it should be their

responsibility to make sure this is done.


Indeed. I am willing to build *some* packages (and submit them to Debian),
but that willingness is decidedly not infinite.

The first question that somebody who proposes to add a new dependency
should ask themselves is this: is there a way to accomplish the task at
hand without adding a new dependency?  If not, can the task at hand be
accomplished using packages that are already in Debian stable?  If not,
does the dependency at least have an active third-party ITP (intent to
package) in the Debian bug tracker?

Regards,

Galen
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