Ongoing Debian package maintenance.

Ben Klein shacklein at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 15:09:11 CDT 2010


On 25 August 2010 11:31, Lei Zhang <thestig at google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 24 August 2010 04:34, Lei Zhang <thestig at google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hello everyone,
>>> >
>>> > My health has not improved at all since my last call for help with the
>>> > Debian package management. I really need someone to take over from me, or at
>>> > least some help to devise a new set of (semi-)automated build scripts. Any
>>> > volunteers?
>>>
>>> Hi Ben,
>>>
>>> Does the task basically involve building new .deb packages for every
>>> release? I can probably take over this if nobody else volunteered.
>>
>> Yes, that is essentially the job. For every release of Wine, produce a
>> package for Debian's stable branch and testing/unstable.
>
> Ok, I'll take the job. If you have any documentation / pointers on
> what the package maintainer needs to do, send them my way, or better
> yet, put it on the Wine wiki.
>

I've put up recommendations for how the packages should be structured
on my page on the wiki. http://wiki.winehq.org/BenKlein

I'll send you my control and crappy build scripts later today. If
there's anything you need to ask me, just shoot :)



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