[Pkg-gridengine-devel] SGE on Debian Unstable

[Dave Love]

Timothy Karl <karl at rostlab.org> writes:

> It would be great if you could create an alioth account. Then one of
> the team admins (@Michael) can add you to the team, so that you have
> write access.

OK, it's fx-guest.

> However your upstream should not ship a debian directory (as it does
> now), because this causes problems with merging new upstreams with the
> debian directory in the alioth VCS (containing the team's
> Debianization). As long as there is a debian directory in your
> upstream, we have to repackage it deleting that directory for Debian
> (although there are other ways to do this, other team members help me
> out here).

Bother.  I want to ship package files so that people can build a version
to install in /opt -- I wouldn't run with the Debian package structure.
I thought it would be OK just to overwrite the debian directory now that
there's a debian tar file rather than a patch, and that only the debian
directory needed to be kept in the repo.  Is there some way to configure
it to be able to produce both sorts of package at build time, as I could
with rpm?

>> I should make a list of the things I think need checking or
>> thinking about, if you could look at it.
>
> Ideally we would fix this in the repo on alioth, so you would not need
> to keep a list and commit it to your
> <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/git/gridengine.debian>.

Well, I should make a list, whatever happens to it.  (I didn't try to
branch the Debian repo as it wasn't up-to-date and I didn't think it
needed all the source, but I could probably re-do it that way if it
helps.)