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

[Mirko Tietgen]

Lars Wirzenius sounded quite eager to do an extensive Debian
packaging workshop for us if there is some funding available. He did
the initial work on the Koha Debian packages sponsored by Catalyst,
IIRC.

He wanted to get back to me in April about the option of doing that
at the Hackfest in Berlin the week before Kohacon. So if we found
some money and some people to attend, the packaging problem could be
solved in a sustainable way.

-- Mirko


Brendan Gallagher schrieb am 08.03.2016
> Thanks Liz.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
> --
> Galen Charlton
> Infrastructure and Added Services Manager
> Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library
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