Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-privacy-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
* Package name : genmkfile Version : 4.0 Upstream Author : Patrick Schleizer <adrela...@riseup.net> * URL : https://github.com/Whonix/genmkfile * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: bash and make Description : Generic Makefile long description: Makes packaging scripts simpler. No more need to manually maintain 'make install' targets or distribution specific install files such as debian/pkg-name.install. Files in etc/... in root source folder will be installed to /etc/..., files in usr/... will be installed to /usr/... and so forth. This should make renaming, moving files around, packaging, etc. very simple. Packaging of most packages can look very similar. Provides common make targets such as 'make install'. Very extensible through file ./make-helper-overrides.bsh or folder ./make-helper-overrides.d. By using overrides, any make target can be easily extended using pre or post hooks or replaced. Contains a minimal Makefile while the heavy lifting is done by a bash script make-helper.bsh. use case: onion-grater would be a great addition to Debian because it would improve usability for users that use applications using Tor's ControlPort. onion-grater is a Tor ControlPort filter written by anonym (Tails project) that has been packaged by Patrick Schleizer (Whonix project). The packaged version of onion-grater depends on genmkfile. stability: The genmkfile package has been used by the Whonix project for years to package more than 100 deb packages. packaging effort: Hopefully very little. The /debian folder has already been implemented and long term tested. The package is lintian --pedantic clean. Since the package is rather simple, no compiled code, just scripts, it should be already reproducible. Ideally, a Debian Developer could easily build it and upload to Debian. Please tell me if any changes are required to make it fit for inclusion into Debian. license file: https://github.com/Whonix/genmkfile/blob/master/debian/copyright building: Should be as simple as three commands. apt-get installing the build and runtime dependencies, creating an upstream tarball and then create a deb package. make dist sudo apt-get --yes --no-install-recommends install debhelper devscripts strip-nondeterminism fakeroot perl make dpkg-dev sudo perl dpkg-buildpackage Cheers, Patrick (genmkfile upstream author)
