[Devel] Maintaining packages in Skolelinux

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@xxxxxxxxxx>]

[Hilaire Fernandes]
> You mean a package for Debian/Stable, right?

Yes.

> How much work does this need? Is it possible to recompile from the
> deb-src pacakge? How?

Well, in principle the work is to build the package, and make sure it
works and have no known security problems.  If there are problems or
security issues, one need to find a working/fixed version and rebuild
for Woody.  The rebuild is mostly 'apt-get source' to get the source,
edit src/debian/changelog to document the fact that this is a package
built for Woody / Skolelinux, and build it using for instance debuild.
The finished package is placed in the Skolelinux APT source after it
is tested and found to work fine. :)

If you need to patch the source, it should be checked into Skolelinux
CVS (src/rebuild/) to document the changes.

> Also note, that in unstable, guile 1.4 will become deprecated. 
> 
> Therefore, DrGenius may soon need to be compatible with guile 1.6
> (in unstable) which will make it broken with guile 1.4 (in stable)
> then with Skolelinux.

So an upgrade to the Sid version should happen fast?

BTW: I move this discussion back to devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, to let more
  people know how to maintain a package in Skolelinux.