Chris, Thanks for the links and the explanation!
--Barton On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:31 PM Chris Cormack <ch...@bigballofwax.co.nz> wrote: > Hi Barton > > Yes that is the long term plan, the best way to get into ubuntu is to > get into debian, they pull stuff from there. > Which is why we package everything and add to debian whereever we can. > > So we get it into debian for example > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=chr...@catalyst.net.nz > > So they end up here > > https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/libbusiness-edifact-interchange-perl > > Which means they end up here > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/xenial/libbusiness-edifact-interchange-perl > > Now, there are a bunch of rules around copyright licenses etc, which I > think we have nearly fixed and a few other things that would stop > koha-common going into debian (and thus ubuntu) > But the plan is to fix them, when we have time of course. We could > maybe make that a push at the hackfest, or kohacon :) > > Chris > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 at 12:14, Barton Chittenden > <bar...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > > > > Explainshell.com is a very nifty site that will parse the man pages that > they know about, and then tell you what a given command line does. > > > > For example, given the command line > > > > yaz-marcdump -i marc -o marc -f utf-8 -t marc8 -l 9=20 > filenametoconvert.mrc > > > > Explainshell will tell you what the -i, -o, -f, -t and -l options do: > > > > > https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=yaz-marcdump+-i+marc+-o+marc+-f+utf-8+-t+marc8+-l+9%3D20+filenametoconvert.mrc+%3E+c > > > > I honestly wasn't expecting it to know about yaz-marcdump.... but since > it does, I tried koha-create... and it doesn't know about that. > > > > Apparently it looks at Ubuntu's man-page repository ( > http://manpages.ubuntu.com/) ... so ... we're not there. > > > > I don't know how much of a pain it is to get into, say, the ubuntu > multiverse or ubuntu partner repos. I could see issues with some of our > more bleeding edge dependencies... but it would be pretty awesome to just > use a straight 'apt install koha' to get koha... and also to be able to use > explainshell for koha-utilities. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Koha-devel mailing list > > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ >
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