On 09/27/2013 09:45 AM, Joachim Zobel wrote: > Hi. > > Is there any documentation on maintaining existing packages. The docs I > find focus on how to create a package. I myself currently try to find > out how the netbeans package from git works. I will find out, but it > could be a lot easier with a few one liners and a short explanation of > their context. > > Sincerely, > Joachim
Hi Joachim, Although it may not seem like it, most of the simpler team-maintained packages follow a consistent process for building. (We could do a better job of documenting that process on the wiki, though.) Larger, more complex packages can be a different story. Oftentimes the build process is documented in README.source, as recommended by policy [1]. However, in practice, these files are often out of date. In the case of packages that don't build in the standard way (everything should build with "debuild -us -uc"), I'd suggest contacting the maintainers and/or filing a severity wishlist bug report against the source package requesting the addition of the file. Cheers, tony [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-readmesource -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52485337.2090...@mancill.com
