[Pkg-gridengine-devel] SGE on Debian Unstable

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:07:51PM +0000, Dave Love wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, partly due to trying to get a new SGE release out.
> The packaging will need fixing for that.

Sure, no worry.  From Debian's point of view, this is for the next
release after the current one, so no hurry (but it would probably be
nice to backport it for the upcoming release once that is out)
 
> Laszlo Kajan <lkajan at rostlab.org> writes:
> > I do not aspire to become an SGE developer.
> >
> > 1: I imported (git clone --bare; git push --mirror) Mark Hymers' repository [1] to the new repo.
> >
> > 2: I do not expect any updates to Mark's repo. The new repo does not reference the old one in any way (now).
> >
> > 3: I imported (git-import-orig) Dave's current latest upstream snapshot [2] into upstream, filtering out his debian/ dir.
> >
> >  $ git-import-orig --verbose --filter sge-*/debian --pristine-tar --no-merge ../gridengine_8.1.3.orig.tar.gz
> 
> I was assuming only the packaging would be maintained there, producing a
> debian.tar.gz which would just work with the sge distribution tarball.
> Why does it need the whole tree there?

This is the standard work-flow when using git for packaging (as opposed
to when using subversion).  

> > With that addition, source and binary builds were successful, though with
> > lintian errors. We should build with git-buildpackage, though.
> 
> I didn't know what to do about the lintian errors, and my attempt to use
> a lintian-overrides didn't suppress anything.  Some of the errors are
> just wrong (e.g. binary without man page).  The man errors about wide
> lines should probably just be ignored.  Some of them I just didn't
> understand, like postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig.  I don't know
> why depending on fonts is wrong -- it's a common problem that qmon fails
> without them.

Don't worry about the lintian errors, I or somebody else will take a
look.

Lazlo and I are likely in the same room on the weekend so maybe we can
take a look at it then.

I've cloned the git repo now and will try to build it.


Michael