[Pkg-erlang-devel] 0.10.0 Packaging Status

[Sam Bisbee]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:43:22AM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Sam Bisbee <sbisbee at computervip.com> wrote:
> > Greetings *,
> >
> > I was just able to build and package our svn head for 0.10.0, and all of
> > Futon's test suite passed. I ran it on debian testing amd64.
> >
> > Here is what I see on the TODO list (feel free to add/remove):
> >
> >  - Come to a conclusion on the package splitting / forking / UbuntuOne thread,
> >   and either revert the changes made or do the changes' required lifting. If
> >   we do decide to keep the changes, then I'd suggest going with the vanilla
> >   0.10.0 for now and punting on the changes for a subsequent release
> >   (0.10.0-2).
> 
> I think that regardless of the conclusion on whether the splitting is
> the right thing it doesn't make sense to split the package in Debian
> until no packages take advantage from this splitting.

Well, I think we've already seen that folks downstream want it. I just want to
get 0.10.0 "as is" out sooner rather than later.

> >
> >  - Piuparts is saying that libmozjs1d isn't found when trying to uninstall
> >   couchdb on sid (http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/c/couchdb.html).
> 
> It is libmozjs2d now and the couchdb package currently in sid doesn't
> know about the name change.

Should we be doing a new release to sid?

> >
> >  - What's the status on erlang dependencies (per
> >   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532756)?
> 
> Should be fine (otherwise I wouldn't close this bug in the changelog).

Whoops, I'm blind. :-)

> >
> >  - Does anyone know the status of the bugs in the tracker?
> >   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=couchdb
> 
> All FTBFS (fails to build from the source) bugs are to be closed as
> 0.10.0 builds fine.
> 
> #553742 should be closed too with replacing libreadline5-dev by
> libreadline-dev in debian/control (though it should be checked first)

Fixed @ rev1127. I confirmed that everything still builds, futon tests pass,
etc.

> I know nothing about #550782.

My guess is that it's the same problem that's being discussed on the couchdb
dev list right now.

> >
> > Other than that, the package is looking good to me.
> 
> Vcs-Svn header in debian/control still points to berlios.de.

Fixed @ rev1126. 

> >
> > More of a misc maintenance question: are we listing individual people or the
> > team as maintainers for the package? Maybe better stated: is everyone on the
> > erlang team helping with couchdb?
> 
> Erlang team is currently me. Feel free to join :)

Well, I have been looking for an additional excuse to learn Erlang...though
that may have scared off your offer. :-)

-- 
Sam Bisbee