[Ubuntu Chicago] Packaging Jam! Dec. 16th!

[Richard A. Johnson]

On Monday 10 December 2007, Eddie Martinez wrote:
| heyall:
|
| Jim pointed out a good point. We won't actually be packaging for 6 hours.
| We will be meeting with CoDLUG and they run from 10am-4pm. The conversation
| on packaging will most likely run from 12-3 or 2-4 or something similar to
| this. However, I am waiting for Richard to get back to me on this. Most of
| us are all real busy with finals and such. this does not mean that we wont
| be ready for sunday however.

Starting at 12 would be fine, but in 3 hours you might not learn much, and 
here is why:

When doing any types of Debian packaging, there are multiple environments in 
which you have to package for, those environments are:

1) Merges from Debian
2) New packages
3) Fixing package bugs
4) Rebuilding a package against an updated dependency

Now that you have the environments covered, you have to now commit either as a 
MOTU or not as a MOTU, which bring up 2 new environments.

NON-MOTU
----------------
1) dput to revu for new packages
2) create debdiff/interdiff for merges, updates, and bugfixes

MOTU
---------
1) Review NON-MOTU #1 and #2
2) dput to Ubuntu

2 to 4 simply will not work, because we are usually out the door by 4pm.

12 to 3 will allow us to do possibly 1 new package and 1 or 2 merges.

10 to 4 will allow us to cover 1-4 up top, as well as 1-2 for NON-MOTU, but I 
will leave that up to the people. Packaging isn't something you are going to 
learn in a couple of hours, and doing it from 10 to 4 will not only allow 
myself and possibly Mario to run a couple of sessions, but it will also allow 
us to teach some fundamentals as well as answer questions. A 2 or 3 hour 
session will not get it done, but I will leave that up to all of you, if you 
want a small session, come prepared to just eat what we feed you and don't 
plan on getting into it in depth. Also if you plan on a short session, I 
would recommend that you read the following thouroughly so what we say makes 
at least a little bit of sense:

1) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy
2) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#devref
3) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide
4) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide
5) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PbuilderHowto

And go over anything I didn't cover on this page:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide/Lists/DocumentationResources

For building new packages, you should probably familiarize yourself with 
chroots, creating a good copyright file, and creating a good description in 
the debian/control file.

-- 
Richard A. Johnson
nixternal at kubuntu.org
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