[ubuntu-x] packaging of piglit

[Christopher James Halse Rogers]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 00:18 +0100, Tormod Volden wrote:
> Hi,
> I see that many people use piglit, and it would be nice to have it
> packaged in a PPA, maybe with daily builds... So I took a stab on it,
> and since dh_make can deal with cmake it was pretty easy to get
> started. However, "make install" did nothing (maybe because piglit is
> written for developers to run from a git repository and not be
> installed for users?) so I added some dh_install overrides to stuff it
> all into the .deb.
> 
Awesome.  Thanks very much for this - it's been somewhere on my todo
list for a while.

> Finally I have run out of time, and there are some known issues:
> 
> * the python scripts use a python module which I have shipped in
> /usr/lib/piglit/framework, but this needs to be either a) moved where
> python looks for it b) patch the script to find it c) some dh_python
> magic?
> * the test scripts are shipped in /usr/share/piglit but it would be
> nice if piglit-run.py could search there without the user providing
> full path
> * the executable tests are shipped in /usr/lib/piglit but again,
> piglit-run.py should be told where they are
> * lintian warnings en mass, the most serious I think is
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath.html
> which means the build directory path is written into the binaries.
> 
> Probably some more issues will pop up once these are fixed. I hope
> someone more proficient in packaging of python stuff, or cmake, can
> help out. Thanks in advance for any hints or patches.
> 
> For now, I uploaded it to my own PPA for lucid, but I am thinking
> creating a xorg-edgers PPA for it (and add a launchpad piglit project
> for branches etc):
> 
This would be a good idea.  It would also be worth investigating the ppa
daily-build infrastructure to keep the piglit packages minty fresh.

Either Bryce or I should be able to pick this up from here, either at
the rally or once we're home.
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