[Pkg-gridengine-devel] SGE on Debian Unstable

[Laszlo Kajan]

Hello Dave!

>> 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.

Michael, could you please add Dave to the team? Thank you!

>> However your upstream should not ship a debian directory (as it does
> 
> 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 found a nice explanation of what is wrong with upstream shipping a Debian directory here: [1].

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What.27s_wrong_with_upstream_shipping_a_debian.2BAC8_directory.3F

Well, we can always repackage your upstream, deleting the 'debian' directory from it, and use that as the 'upstream' for Debian.

>>> 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.)

I've branched the repo I found in Alioth (ssh://git.debian.org/git/users/mhy/gridengine-debian.git) and managed to build SGE with your
Debianization from it. Problem is, I can not push my changes back. We have to wait for Mark (who owns the git repository on Alioth) and the
Debian Developers (DDs) on the team to fix this for us. We really have to get a shared repo or we'll end up duplicating a lot of effort.

@Mark and DDs on the team: please recommend a way for team members to access a shared SGE Debianization repository on Alioth. The Perl Team
seems to do this with group rwXs bits on the repo and 'scm_pkg-perl' group membership to team members, and some ACLs.

Best regards,
Laszlo